Frankly, our technology is not up to date. We're letting it slip by.
The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.
All beauty of this world is wet with the dew of tears.
The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good.
A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.
When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.
One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography.
Making an effort is in your hands. Giving 100% is in your hands.
The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order. . . catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.
If I could only live another century!