Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.