"Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness."
"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'"
"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."
"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."
"We are all geniuses up to the age of ten."
"Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored."
"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."
"There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."
"Experience teaches only the teachable."
"Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers."
"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."
