I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.