The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.