This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.

Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.