Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

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

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

If you want to write, keep cats.

In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.