The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.

This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.

Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.