wisdom Quotes

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

Everything popular is wrong.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.