The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.