All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?

Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?

Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.