The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.