There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.

The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.