Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. 

We don't know because we don't want to know.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

The secret of genius 

is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, 

which means 

never losing your enthusiasm.

We participate in a tragedy; 

at a comedy we only look.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. 

We don't know because we don't want to know.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

The finest works of art are precious, 

among other reasons, 

because they make it possible for us to know, 

if only imperfectly and for a little while, 

what it actually feels like 

to think subtly 

and feel nobly.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

A child-like man is not a man
whose development has been arrested; 

on the contrary, 

he is a man
who has given himself a chance
of continuing to develop 

long after most adults have muffled themselves 

in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

The more powerful and original a mind, 

the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, 

which means never losing your enthusiasm.

There are things known 

and there are things unknown, 

and in between 

are the doors of perception.

After silence, 

that which comes nearest 

to expressing the inexpressible 

is music.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy 

unless he has first experienced their desolations.

Experience is not what happens to you; 

it's what you do with what happens to you.

Cynical realism 

is the intelligent man's best excuse 

for doing nothing 

in an intolerable situation.