Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
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.
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.