The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

It is in the very nature of a beginning to carry with itself a measure of complete arbitrariness. Not only is it not bound into a reliable chain of cause and effect, a chain in which each effect immediately turns into the cause for future developments, the beginning has, as it were, nothing whatever to hold on to; it is as though it came out of nowhere in either time or space.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

The blessing of life as a wholecan never be found in work.

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.