The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.

It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.