Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.