Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
imagination, men & women
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.