There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Read Summary
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. Read Summary
Maybe this world is another planet's hell. Read Summary
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Read Summary
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. Read Summary
Experience teaches only the teachable. Read Summary
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. Read Summary
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. Read Summary
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. Read Summary
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. Read Summary
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. Read Summary
A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. Read Summary
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. Read Summary
Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. Read Summary
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. Read Summary
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. Read Summary
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. Read Summary
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. Read Summary
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. Read Summary
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. Read Summary