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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
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.
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.
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.
There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.