Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which men and women must give themselves and their energies, regardless of the consequence to themselves The activities of a cult which sets itself to bring about the world-state would at first be propagandist, they would be intellectual and educational, and only as a sufficient mass of opinion and will had accumulated would they become to a predominant extent politically constructive. Such a cult must direct itself particularly to the teaching of the young.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.