He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

The truth wears longer than all the gods; for it is only in the truth's service, and for love of it, that people have overthrown the gods and at last God himself. "The truth" outlasts the downfall of the world of gods, for it is the immortal soul of this transitory world of gods; it is Deity itself.

A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.