Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home.

The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit itself, even to the point of outlawing any exercise of social power whatever in the premises; in other words, giving itself a monopoly.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.