A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unloc….

With the shock of war the state comes into its own again..

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life..

The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting non….

All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves..

He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes..

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to….

Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its ideal development - to call for and expect much fr….

The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On the contrary, with ….

Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that ….

No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably ….

In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in wor….

War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperati….

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnable, we m….

A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part..

Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books..

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear..

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has..

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience..

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have ….

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part..