Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.

Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.

God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday.

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

A man of politics writes about philosophy: it could be that his "true" philosophy should be looked for rather in his writings on politics. In every personality there is one dominant and predominant activity: it is here that his thought must be looked for, in a form that is more often than not implicit and at times even in contradiction with what is professly expressed.