"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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"Wisdom comes by disillusionment."
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"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
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"Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."
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"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
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"The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others."
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"The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him."
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"The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy."
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"To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful."
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"Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily."
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"If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved."
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"Only the dead have seen the end of the war."
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"The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."
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"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."
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"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."
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"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."
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"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."
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"The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it."
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"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness."
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"The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer."
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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."
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"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."
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"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different."
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"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."
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"We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible."
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"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."
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"The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it."
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"Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament."
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"Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it."
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"Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself."
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"Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others."
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"There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far."
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"Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited."
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