It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good for it or evil... Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice.

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.