There Is Only One Prospect

The More Original A Discovery, The More Obvious It Seems Afterwards.

In The Social Equation, The Value Of A Single Life Is Nil; In The Cosmic Equation, It Is Infinite... Not Only Communism, But Any Political Movement Which Implicitly Relies On Purely Utilitarian Ethics, Must Become A Victim To The Same Fatal Error. It Is A Fallacy As Naïve As A Mathematical Teaser, And Yet Its Consequences Lead Straight To Goya's Disasters, To The Reign Of The Guillotine, The Torture Chambers Of The Inquisition, Or The Cellars Of The Lubianka.

History Is A Priori Amoral; It Has No Conscience.

The Revolutions Of Thought Which Shape The Basic Outlook Of An Age Are Not Disseminated Through Text-books- They Spread Like Epidemics, Through Contamination By Invisible Agents And Innocent Germ Carriers, By The Most Varied Forms Of Contact, Or Simply By Breathing The Common Air.

The Principle Mark Of Genius Is Not Perfection But Originality, The Opening Of New Frontiers.