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.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

Faith in humanity, in posterity, in the destiny of one's religion, nation, race, party or family-what is it but the visualization of that eternal something to which we attach the self that is about to be annihilated?

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.