A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

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.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

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.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.