Habit is stronger than reason.
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
America is a young country with an old mentality.
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
Love makes us poets and the approach of death makes us philosophers.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
