A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

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

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

You can't unscramble an egg.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

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

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.