Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.

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

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

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

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.