Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers.

The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort-“happiness.” He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

When the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country.

Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous state of affairs. When individual thinkers and idealists talk of peace, as they have done since time immemorial, the effect is negligible. But when whole peoples become pacifistic it is a symptom of senility. Strong and unspent races are not pacifistic. To adopt such a position is to abandon the future, for the pacifist ideal is a terminal condition that is contrary to the basic facts of existence. As long as man continues to evolve, there will be wars.