Communism is the opiate of the people.

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. It begins where chaos and insecurity end. For when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life.

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.

There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.