In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.