Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

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.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

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

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.