Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge.

It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.

This god, this one word: I.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.