The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.

The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.

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

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.