A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them miserable.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.