The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling