Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. We join a mass movement to escape from individual responsibility, or, in the words of an ardent young Nazi, to be free from freedom. It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.