Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.

One of the great attractions of patriotism

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.