“What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.”

“If there's one thing I believe, its that I don't know anything and anything can happen”

“The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.”

“We all believe silly things. What matters is how silly and how many.”

“I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical”

“Sensation tell us a thing is.
Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.
Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.”

“What I’ve observed—the pattern behind what I’ve observed—explains why what happens happens the way it does. It makes the whole process easier to see. Your idea is a possible explanation not of the observations but of a set of speculations, which, if you accepted them along with the explanation, would then only make you start seeing things and half-things where no things are.”

“The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.”

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”

“What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.”