Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.