It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,
or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self. |
Knowledge is power. |
Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man’s knowledge. |
One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through. |
Knowledge and human power are synonymous. |
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. |
A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out. |
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. |
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. |
For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike. |
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies. |
A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war. |
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they see nothing but sea. |
