In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering, and that, consequently, this feeling - should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men.

... a man has to think of his soul before everything else.

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.

Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.