Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.

The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.

A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire.

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.

The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.

All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.

Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?

Crowds are influenced mainly by images produced by the judicious employment of words and formulas

If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.

Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.

God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most and the true "gift" in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas.

I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.

Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.

For me, it feels like my ideas are more specific to random thoughts or single ideas I might have, as opposed to being influenced by a general perception of absurdity.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.