The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.