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.

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.

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.

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

People do not meet by chance––they navigate their lives to certain people for certain reasons.

And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

I didn't come out of a cereal box.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

The only way to resolve the North Korean problem is to change the regime.

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers.