...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.

All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.