1. "A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it."
2. "A man is not old as long as he is seeking something."
3. "Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued."
4. "Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said."
5. "Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind."
6. "God, that checkroom of our dreams."
7. "God, that dumping ground of our dreams."
8. "In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day."
9. ”In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.”
10. "I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell."
11. “I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.”
12. "It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of."
13. "It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths."
14. "It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls."
15. "It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed."
16. "I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance."
17. “Kill a man, one is a murderer; kill a million, a conqueror; kill them all, a God.”
18. "Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth."
19. "One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it."
20. "One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void."
21. "Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable."
22. "Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we."
23. "The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to."
24. "The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same."
25. "The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious."
26. "The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
27. "The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why."
28. "There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past."
29. "To be adult is to be alone."
30. "To hate fatigues."
31. "To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should."
32. "To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts."
33. "To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few."
34. "Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it."
35. "We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job."
36. "We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds."
37. "When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic."
38. “Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language.”
