Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours.

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.