Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only responds to duty if he desires to do so. To understand men, you must understand their desires and the relative strength of those desires.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.