Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.