To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.