The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

I think with my right hand.

Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.