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.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

What you take in by visionary experience you must give out by love and intelligence in daily life.