It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.

When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can dwell in its natural home.

The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.