In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies – the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.

Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals, on whom, on account of me, their Creator, he ought to have compassion.

Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Marriages should culminate on account of the wishes of the couple. It is their knitting of the hearts that should lead to marriages.

Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.