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

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

Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.

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

Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

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.