Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Read Summary
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' Read Summary
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Read Summary
Dream in a pragmatic way. Read Summary
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. Read Summary
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. Read Summary
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? Read Summary
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. Read Summary
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. Read Summary
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. Read Summary
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. Read Summary
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. Read Summary
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. Read Summary
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous. Read Summary
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. Read Summary
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. Read Summary
Several excuses are always less convincing than one. Read Summary
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. Read Summary
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. Read Summary
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. Read Summary