There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

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?

This siren, this goat-footed bard, this half human visitor to our age the hag-ridden and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity. One catches in his company that flavour of final purposelessness, inner responsibility, existence outside or away from our Saxon good and evil, mixed with cunning, remorselessness, love of power.

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.