The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.

Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.