A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

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.

A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.

A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.

To change everything, simply change your attitude.