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

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can't learn. If you have too much, you will think you don't have to learn.

Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication in the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.