Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?

In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

When reason fails, the devil helps!

"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!"

But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms.