I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great

Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew…

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

Since fear is such a primal reaction, making the choice to move forward despite fear is an evolved decision that transcends our animal nature.

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.

Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

It is still an open question as to whether mankind or insects shall ultimately inherit the earth. It is my opinion that mankind ... has about a 50-50 chance...

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.