Communists are frustrated capitalists.

Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own. Whether it is our own meaningless self we are upholding, or some doctrine devoid of evidence, we can do it only in a frenzy of faith.

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

The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.