When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.
Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions.
Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.
The universe does not work by our rules.
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.
The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.
There’s a lesson in every temptation.
Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy.
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
Something cannot emerge from nothing.
Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.
Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.
Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.