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

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

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

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.

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.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.