“Hence I think it is that democracies change into aristocracies, and these at length into monarchies,' people at last prefer tyranny to chaos. Equality of power is an unstable condition; men are by nature unequal; and 'he who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.' Democracy has still to solve the problem of enlisting the best energies of men while giving to all alike the choice of those, among the trained and fit, by whom they wish to be ruled.”

“We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive recirculation.”

“Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.”

“Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.”

“Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ”

“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.”

“Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.”

“Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.”

“Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.”

“Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.”

“Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.”