Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.

Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.

The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situations. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help is, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted.

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

In real life there is no such person as the average man.