Education, The Great Mumbo Jumbo And Fraud

The Most Terrible Thing About Materialism, Even More Terrible Than Its Proneness To Violence, Is Its Boredom, From Which Sex Alcohol, Drugs, All Devices For Putting Out The Accusing Light Of Reason And Suppressing The Unrealizable Aspirations Of Love, Offer A Prospect Of Deliverance.

The Three Most Disastrous Inventions Of Our Time Have Been The Birth Control Pill, The Camera And Nuclear Weaponry. The First Offers Sex In Terms Of Sterility, The Second Reality In Terms Of Fantasy, And The Third Security In Terms Of Destruction.

When Dwight Eisenhower Became President, I Personally Was Delighted. I Thought That That Was A Very Good Thing.

I Doubt Whether The Revolution Has, In Essentials, Changed Russia At All. Reading Gogol, Or Dostoevsky For That Matter, One Realizes How Completely The Soviet Regime Has Fallen Back On To, And Perhaps Invigorated, The Old Russia. Certainly There Is Much More Of Gogol And Dostoievsky In The Regime Than There Is Of Marx.

In Retrospect, All These Exercises In Self-gratification Seem Pure Fantasy, What Pascal Called, Licking The Earth.