The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers..

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species..

When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy - as Far….

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions..

Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture.

When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The ind….

Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of em….

The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this tem….

Honor is decency without vanity..

If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the tra….

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud which she….

Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the ind….

The Régime did not want Communists; it wanted robots. It will take at least a generation to change them back into humans again..

If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out..

Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, ….

To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind..

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated..

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual..

The jester is brother to the sage..

The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose co….

In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement w….