When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.

A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

Language was invented to ask questions.

What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.

The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.