A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.

I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.