People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern scientific...
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the...
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won heroes have no...
Words words words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of...
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for...
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded in certain circles as a...
Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world...
The more powerful and original a mind the more it will incline towards the...
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to...
All gods are homemade and it is we who pull their strings and so give them...
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself to...
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are...
To his dog every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely...
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is...
That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane...
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons Caesars and Napoleons will...
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal...
The impulse to cruelty is in many people almost as violent as the impulse...
In poetry you must love the words the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
