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

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.

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.

It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.

Live your best and leave the rest

Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present.

My earliest memory is of the best Christmas gift ever, a toy train. I remember riding that thing all through our house.

Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.

Time, money, etc... are human-made constructs. They are not real. They are completely made up.

If you talk about yourself, he'll think you're boring. If you talk about others, he'll think you're a gossip. If you talk about him, he'll think you're a brilliant conversationalist.

People come to New York City because they want something different... now, people are just getting the sterilized version of that.

When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically.