Great Throughts Treasury

"Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics."

"When a man lies dying, he does not die from disease alone. He dies from his whole life."

"The life of an honest man must be an apostasy and a perpetual desertion... For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself continually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors."

"He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers."

"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom."

"One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what ones sees."

"If one says what he thinks, the other too says what he thinks"

"The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors."