Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

To live is to war with trolls.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.

Each bird must sing with his own throat.