"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."
"It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases."
"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads."
"Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body."
"The Soul is the voice of the body's interests."
"It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to."
"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."
"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."
"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."
"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography."
"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds."
"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."
"The Bible is literature, not dogma."
"Sanity is madness put to good use."
"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different."
"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots."
"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."
