Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.

The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.