Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.