How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited.

people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.