One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.