The monarchical institution in England is immensely valuable.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama