Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

One must live well to know what living is.

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense. Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.