It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who present her with this unquestioning adulation. In other words, it's their lack of a larger faith. Which makes them fasten onto, a purely earthly symbol.

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

One of the stupidest theories of Western life.