seraphim

“It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly.”

“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.”

“People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.”

“Smiling despair. No solution, but constantly exercising an authority over myself that I know is useless. The essential thing is not to lose oneself, and not to lose that part of oneself that lies sleeping in the world.”

“Life is short. That’s all there is to say. Get what you can from the present — thoughtfully, justly.”

“A man cannot search either for what he knows or for what he does not know… He cannot search for what he knows — since he knows it, there is no need to search — nor for what he does not know, for he does not know what to look for.”

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”