It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.