If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

The main thing is to know something and to say it.

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

Death is the only fantasy that becomes real for all humans.

The "C" students run the world.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

You know what I'm talking about. This business has changed. Flyers aren't pilots anymore, they're engineers. This is a college man's game. Our work is done. The pioneering is over.

You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you're asking for money!

There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect.

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

You don't get what you don't ask for

First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.