Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

If you judge, investigate.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Dissents speak to a future age.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

It’s not simply to say, ‚My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,‘ but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.