Solitary confinement is rock bottom, it’s absolute unfreedom.
Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.
Much depends on asking the right question at the right time.
The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it.
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth, treated as if it were a whole truth.
…The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been.
[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.
You opposed fascism, then you ditched communism.’No, I didn’t. Communism ditched me by turning into Stalinism’.
Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Wars are not fought for territory but for words. Man’s deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic the group-mind takes over.
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man’s history is the beating of war drums.
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.