Arthur Schnitzler
View AuthorTolerance means forgiving the faults of others; tact means not noticing them.
Arthur Schnitzler
View AuthorDizziness is to space what impatience is to time.
Arthur Schopenhauer
View AuthorEnvy in men shows how unhappy they feel, and their constant attention to what others do or fail to do shows how bored they are.
Arthur Schopenhauer
View AuthorThe first forty years of life give us the text; the following thirty, the commentary.
Arthur Schopenhauer
View AuthorIn music, all feelings return to their pure state, and the world is nothing but music made real.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
View AuthorAs far as we have lost belief, we have lost reason. Both have the same authoritative and primary condition. Both constitute methods of proof that, in turn, do not admit to being proven. And in the act of annihilating the idea of divine authority, we undermine that human authority from which we cannot even dispense to say that two and two are four.
Rafael Chirbes
View AuthorPeople don't care about anything; as long as they don't throw garbage from the other side of the wall, or the smell of decay reaches their terrace, the world can sink into crap.
Agatha Christie
View AuthorMarry an archaeologist. The older you get, the more charming they will find you.
Emil Cioran
View AuthorNo matter how disillusioned we may be, it is impossible to live without some hope. We always hold on to one, despite ourselves, and that unconscious hope compensates for all the other explicit hopes we have rejected or exhausted.
Joseph Conrad
View AuthorThe belief in some kind of supernatural evil is not necessary. Men alone are capable of any evil.
Joseph Conrad
View AuthorLife is a farce: that mysterious arrangement of relentless logic for a futile purpose. The most one can expect from it is a certain self-knowledge, which comes too late, and a harvest of unquenchable regrets.
Cristina II
View AuthorThe secret to ridiculing people lies in attributing talent to those who do not have it.