There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.