💬 Quotes

"L'inconnu effraie toujours, mais c'est l'inconnu de l'esprit humain qui est le plus terrifiant."

"La sphère ne fait rien par elle-même. Elle se contente de refléter ce qui est déjà en nous."

"Nous sommes nos propres pires ennemis, et le fond de l'océan n'est qu'un miroir pour nos propres ténèbres."

"La science tente de comprendre le monde, mais elle oublie souvent que l'observateur fait partie de l'équation."

"Le pouvoir absolu de matérialiser ses pensées est une malédiction pour une espèce qui ne maîtrise pas encore ses propres peurs."

"Oublier. C'est la seule façon de survivre à ce que nous avons découvert ici."

"Man is by nature a political animal."

"He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin, whether a state or anything else, will obtain the clearest view of them."

"He who trusts any man with supreme power gives a tyrant to the state, for passion is like a wild beast, and passion swayeth even the very best of rulers."

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

"The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule because of their wealth, whether they be a few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy."

"Education should be an object of public care, and not of private business."

"The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead."

"Capitalism is the astonishing belief that the wickedest men will do the wickedest things for the greatest good of everyone."

"By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."

"Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist."

"The difficulty lies not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds."

"The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury."

"Food, and raiment, and lodging are indeed the things for want of which men and animals die; but the things which a man lives for, or dies for, are beauty, hope, love, and admiration."

"Remember that all the scholastic wisdom of the realm is a dead letter, if the university officers do not teach you to read; and to read is to go out, for a half-hour, every day, into a different society."