Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

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

Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

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

The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.