What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.

Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.

Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately; but right it has not.

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?

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

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!