The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. History recks nothing of human logic

Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.

When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

Optimism is cowardice.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise the dull craft of experimental psychology.

Every memory is precious. It is more precious when it is a memory of a baby’s smile.

Each moment means a new possibility. Mindfulness is not resisting things to happen but allowing life to unfold its wings.

There’s nothing that brings peace to the mind like joy.

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

Let's put it this way: I did not get in trouble every time I drank, but every time I got in trouble, I'd been drinking

To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.