That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.