Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

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

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.