It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Fortunatelypsychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itselfstill remains a very effective therapist.

What is well done is done soon enough.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.