Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

...it all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.