“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.

Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.

It’s natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not.

It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

Most good thinking has its origin in fear.