Where unity and self-sacrifice are indispensable for the normal functioning of society, everyday life is likely to be either religiofied (common tasks turned into holy causes) or militarized.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.