Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.

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

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.

When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.

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

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.