You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

Am I dreaming? Has the world gone mad--or have I?

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

Are we all bubbles blown by a baby?

You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.