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

Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

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.

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

The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

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