All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The world is coming to an end in 1950.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.