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

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

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

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

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.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.