We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people angry enough to do something about it

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