A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.

I am at one with my duality.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.