But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any random manner, but will perish unless he lives as his nature requires, so he is free to seek his happiness in any mindless fraud, but the torture of frustration is all he will find, unless he seeks the happiness proper to man. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

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

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

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 one’s own consciousness.