In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

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.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

Pain was a fascinating horror