War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
Power without abuse loses its charm.
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Love is being stupid together.
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.