Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

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.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

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

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.