 When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion. |
| To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. |
| Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. |
| Animals often strike us as passionate machines. |
| A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time. |
| Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. |
| I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind. |
| We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. |
| There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. |
| There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size. |
| We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams. |
| The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. |
| It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. |
| Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. |
| In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. |
| A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. |
| Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. |
| In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. |
| Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. |
| We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. |
