Quotes

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

The best books are those that tell you what you know already.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is to restate the obvious.

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

When evils are foreseen, they can be quickly remedied; but when, through not having been foreseen, they have been permitted to grow in a way that everyone can see them, there is no longer a remedy.

He who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined.

The first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him.