Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
The moment of change is the only poem.
I take sounds and change them into words.
Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a lightbulb.
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.
To forget oneself is to be happy.
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
Natural history is not about producing fables.
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
