The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it in a state of effervescence.

A democrat need not believe that the majority will always reach a wise decision. He should however believe in the necessity of accepting the decision of the majority, be it wise or unwise, until such a time that the majority reaches another decision.

The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.