History Knows No Scruples And No Hesitation.

Men Cannot Be Treated As Units In Operations Of Political Arithmetic Because They Behave Like The Symbols For Zero And The Infinite , Which Dislocate All Mathematical Operations.

Conscious And Unconscious Experiences Do Not Belong To Different Compartments Of The Mind; They Form A Continuous Scale Of Gradations, Of Degrees Of Awareness.

Aggressiveness Is Not The Main Trouble With The Human Species, But Rather An Excess Capacity For Fanatical Devotion.

There Is Only One Prospect Worse Than Being Chained To An Intolerable Existence: The Nightmare Of A Botched Attempt To End It.

All "if" Statements About The Past Are As Dubious As Prophecies Of The Future Are. It Seems Fairly Plausible That If Alexander Or Ghengis Khan Had Never Been Born, Some Other Individual Would Have Filled His Place And Executed The Design Of The Hellenic Or Mongolic Expansion; But The Alexanders Of Philosophy And Religion, Of Science And Art, Seem Less Expendable; Their Impact Seems Less Determined By Economic Challenges And Social Pressures; And They Seem To Have A Much Wider Range Of Possibilities To Influence The Direction, Shape And Texture Of Civilizations.