Quotes

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Above all, do not lie to yourself.

Beauty will save the world.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Books, my brothers, books, not bells and baubles!

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.