Success Depends On Intuition, On Seeing What

The First Thing A Man Will Do For His Ideals Is Lie.

Democracy Is A Political Method, That Is To Say, A Certain Type Of Institutional Arrangement For Arriving At Political — Legislative And Administrative — Decisions And Hence Incapable Of Being An End In Itself.

Geniuses And Prophets Do Not Usually Excel In Professional Learning, And Their Originality, If Any, Is Often Due Precisely To The Fact That They Do Not.

The State Has Been Living On A Revenue Which Was Being Produced In The Private Sphere For Private Purposes And Had To Be Deflected From These Purposes By Political Force. The Theory That Construes Taxes On The Analogy Of Club Dues Or Of The Purchase Of The Services Of, Say, A Doctor Only Proves How Far Removed This Part Of The Social Sciences Is From Scientific Habits Of Mind.

Innovations Are Changes Which Cannot Be Decomposed Into Infinitessimal Steps.