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

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

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.

A Leader is a dealer in hope.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.