The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science and technology. The autonomous individual, also, when he can neither realize himself nor justify his existence by his own efforts, is a breeding call of frustration, and the seed of the convulsions which shake our world to its foundations.

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