A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with very great intensity-the greatest intensity of which I am capable-for a few hours or days, and at the end of that time give orders, so to speak (to my subconscious mind) that the work is to proceed underground. After some months I return consciously to the topic and find that the work has been done.

There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and strong as Death, a mystic contemplation, the “intellectual love of God.” Those who have known it cannot believe in wars any longer, or in any kind of hot struggle. If I could give to others what has come to me in this way, I could make them too feel the futility of fighting. But I do not know how to communicate it: when I speak, they stare, applaud, or smile, but do not understand.

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

When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.