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.

For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.

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

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

‎"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.

To be a fool at the right time is also an art.