The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

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.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.