Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.

He who will establish himself on a certain height must yield according to circumstances, like the weather-cock on a church-spire, which, though it be made of i…

'The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.'

On top of the world, Looking over the edge, You could see them coming. You looked too small In their big, black car, To be a threat to the men in power.

The love of power is a part of human nature, but power-philosophies are, in a certain precise sense, insane. The existence of the external world, both that of …