Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's just the opposite.
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern scientific...
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the...
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won heroes have no...
Words words words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of...
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for...
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded in certain circles as a...
Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world...
The more powerful and original a mind the more it will incline towards the...
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to...
All gods are homemade and it is we who pull their strings and so give them...
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself to...
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are...
To his dog every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely...
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is...
That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane...
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons Caesars and Napoleons will...
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal...
The impulse to cruelty is in many people almost as violent as the impulse...
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying...
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major...
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all...
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of...
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor for their curiosity...
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of...
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most...
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most...
Happiness is a hard master particularly other people's happiness.
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state...
