If Bush had read all the documents about the Russians and British in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have not done what he did in the 21st. He would have understood how difficult it was to control this territory. He probably didn't read them.

Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.

I was in a maze. No matter which way I turned, it was the wrong way.

It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.

Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!