Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.

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.