The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.

The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.

The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.

Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire.

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.

The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.

All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.

Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?

Crowds are influenced mainly by images produced by the judicious employment of words and formulas

If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.

The Lord will provide.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

You create wealth by what you give.

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something.

Doctor, feel my purse.

Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation.

Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.