“Apart from the fact there is no normal standard of health, nobody has proved that man is necessarily cheerful by nature.”
“We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important.”
“Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.”
“Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.”
“To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.”
“Warmth, warmth, more warmth! for we are dying of cold and not of darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost.”
“Man is said to be a reasoning animal... More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep.”
“Consciousness is a disease.”
“We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.”
“The devil is an angel too.”
“Isolation is the worst possible counselor.”
“It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”
“Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.”
“There are only two industries that call their customers “users”: illegal drugs and software.”
“Graphical excellence gives the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink.”
“If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.”
“Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.”
“Above all else, show the data.”
“Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.”
“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”