We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made to be sold. All the collapse of their commercial system in their own time has been due to that fallacy of forcing things on a market where there was no market; of continually increasing the power of supply without increasing the power of demand; of briefly, of always considering the man who sells the potato and never considering the man who eats it.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.

Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.

The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.