“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”

The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty

Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

He was a wise man who invented God.

Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.

You should not honor men more than truth.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.

To be a successful soldier, you must know history.

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.