From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of educ...
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life a community of thought a rivalry of aim.
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
Adams's diplomatic victory was Napoleonic in its magnitude and completeness, Even Caulaincourt, whom he overthrew, good-naturedly congratulated him after he had succeeded,against Caulaincourts utmost...
Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.