Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

Hope clouds observation.

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.