Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people.

It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.

...if the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science, which in the absence of any such misgivings gets on with the work itself and actually does know, it is difficult to see why, conversely, a mistrust should not be placed in this mistrust, and why we should not be concerned that this fear of erring is itself the very error.

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.