The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective.

Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.

A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.

Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between that person and death knows this, as does whoever has fallen into the catastrophe of a deep depression, anyone who has loved a woman to the dregs, anyone who has beaten others bloody or ever come up behind another person with muscles trembling. "Losing one's head," language calls it. Emotional experience is, in itself, poor in qualities; qualities are brought to it by the person who has the experience.