I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

A fate is not a punishment.

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.

The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.