Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.