What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.

Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?

If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

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