Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.