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

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.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.