Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

Fame is a heavy burden.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.