The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

For the entrance is low: we must stoop till we are no taller than children to get in.

Both the two of us knew it. We watched the lie go up big and slow between us, then it burst like a spit bubble. They always burst before too long.

First no tooth fairythen no santaand no godand then your parents are only humanyour government is corruptand the universe is a hologram.

It takes vision and courage to create- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Bad is never good until worse happens.

I'm a competitive person.

The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.

Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.

What if we were to take seriously the possibility that our students have a rich and authoritative inner life and tried to nourish it rather than negate it?

Some live in a state of passionate indecision.