The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.

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

Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.

The moral man is necessarily narrow in that he knows no other enemy than the immoral man. He who is not moral is immoral! and accordingly reprobate, despicable, etc. Therefore, the moral man can never comprehend the egoist.

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

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.

We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.