Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.