Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

Convictions are prisons.

Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

And nobody lies as much as the indignant do.