Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.

We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.