Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom