True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.

True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.

Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future.

The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it.

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

The more recently power has originated, the less it can remain stationary - first because those who created it have become accustomed to rapid further movement and because they are and will be innovators per se; secondly, because the forces aroused or subdued by them can be employed only through further acts.