There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

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

Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

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.

Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.