Louis Aragon Quotes

25 quotes in 493 categories

• Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent,…
• I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will…
• Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's…
• Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
• There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
• The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses…
• There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he…
• We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
• Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
• Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion…
• I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable...
• Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive…
• It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.
• Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle driven mad by…
• And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great…
• O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those…
• Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.
• The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.
• Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.
• Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

Browse Louis Aragon Quotes by Category