In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

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

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.