Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.

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.