Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.