A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

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

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.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.