“Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.”

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.

I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

Anger is a prelude to courage.

The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.

Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.

Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.

When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Christianity … that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried… A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.