My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities.
Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to oneโs own consciousness.
Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness.
When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.