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 war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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 time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.