The future is the shape of things to come.
The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel.
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
A young mistress is better than an old master.
You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.
The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.
... life falls into place only with God.
It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.
This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
The past is but the past of a beginning.
All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear to moderate-minded 'reasonable' men. Armament itself is making war. Making a gun, pointing a gun, and firing it are all acts of the same order. It should be illegal to construct anywhere upon earth any mechanism for the specific purpose of killing men. When you see a gun it is reasonable to ask: 'Whom is that intended to kill?'
The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
Ignorance is not an extension of time
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.
Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.
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