The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

The institution of representative government to us seems an essential part of democracy, but the ancients never thought of it. Its immense merit was that it enabled a large constituency to exert indirect power, and thus made possible the distribution of political responsibility throughout the great states of modern times.

This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is obvious that simplicity has been a part cause of their discovery, and can, therefore, give no ground for the supposition that other undiscovered laws are equally simple.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.