Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.