The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

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The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

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In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

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Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

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I don't care where I'm from. Nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.

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History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma.

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

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Dream in a pragmatic way.

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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

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Without economic security, the love of servitude cannot possibly come into existence.

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