One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thou art a Man, God is no more.<br> Thy own humanity learn to adore.

The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being.