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

If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable disease or to an earthquake or, for that matter, to social conditions that seem to be unchangeable. Only where there is reason to suspect that conditions could be changed and are not does rage arise.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.

every thought is strictly speaking an after-thought.