Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his whole self into it, quite unawares, presenting as if in allegory the basic themes and problems of his life.