Wisdom

It’s a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

The true knower is not one who searches for knowledge, but one who searches for the one who has knowledge.

To be poor does not mean that you have no wealth. To be poor means that you are satisfied with what you have.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Art, in the Platonic view, is the act of representing spirit.

The point is not for us simply to survive, but to live in that deeper sense.

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning, the more meaning is needed.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

The entire drama of human life is summarized and concentrated in the delicate pattern of a high lace collar.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Others believe as I do, but their beliefs do not interest me, just as mine may not interest them.

The virtue of media lies in their naïveté.

Each day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life — and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.