This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.