A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.