Whenever masses of people, especially educated people, know something - and when what they know is something they greatly fear because they believe it affects virtually everything they do or want to do - then most likely we stand in the presence of a vast falsehood.

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility

Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.