And man will go on. Man, not men.

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their faces, by something in their faces.

A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!

The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason.

You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed.