We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.