You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

Most of us choose our companions and surroundings to reflect ourselves.

The universe does not work by our rules

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.

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