Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.