There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.

The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

The world is coming to an end in 1950.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.