Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

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.

Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.