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.

The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

The pure soul is a pure lie.

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.