In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
From Paul Valery
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
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