An inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
Every successful revolution puts on, in time, the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
It is harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretense that pain is the proper price of any good thing.
Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.
