Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.