To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.