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.

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.