Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?

Ideas shape the course of history.

Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill done.

So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what they most dislike, the opposite of the blond beast intellectualist, individualist, supernationalist, pacifist, inky, plump... How should they know the glory of the free-ranging intellect and soft objective sympathy to whom money and violence, drink and blood and pomp, mean absolutely nothing?

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.