In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.
There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.
The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.