Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Explosions are not comfortable.
We comes from God, I from the Devil.
All women are lips, nothing but lips.
The world is kept alive only by heretics.
Only the rational and useful is beautiful.
Individual consciousness is just sickness.
Her smile was a bite, and I was its target.
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches.
The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.
The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.
All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.
An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.
Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.
The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.
Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.
We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.
The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .
What is it to you if I don't want others to want for me, if I want to want myself - if I want the impossible.
The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?
The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.
The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.
Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.
Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.
Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.
I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom -- that is, in disorganized wildness.
It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.
The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.
To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.