mindset Quotes

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.