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.

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.

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

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.