. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.

We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.

Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.