The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

No one has a right to happiness.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Anger is a prelude to courage.

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.