The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.