Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.