To fear love is to fear life.

I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial.

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

Do not feel certain of anything.

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale