Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.