That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
From Aldous Huxley
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
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.
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
The proper study of mankind is books.
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
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