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.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.

A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic solely of children. They inability or unwillingness to see things as they are promotes both gullibility and charlatanism.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.