The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life

The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.