“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.”
Good“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.”
Age“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.”
Good“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”
God“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.”
God“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.”
Great“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
Change“The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.”
Love“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.”
Time“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”
Dad“De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.”
History“That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.”
Men“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
Religion“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”
Good“People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.”
Work“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
History“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.”
Age“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”
Truth“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”
Truth“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
Music“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”
Power“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.”
Death