That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
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.
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
Dream in a pragmatic way.
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
The proper study of mankind is books.
