The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.