Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.