Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.

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

The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science and technology. The autonomous individual, also, when he can neither realize himself nor justify his existence by his own efforts, is a breeding call of frustration, and the seed of the convulsions which shake our world to its foundations.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot grow up because he keeps growing.