The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea.
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.
... that distant look characteristic of people who do not wish to be agreeable...
She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.
Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.
Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.
Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.
Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
Globally, democracies have also acted in ways that suggest an outright renunciation of their principles at home.
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
