The people is dead! Good-day, Self!

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.

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.

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves!

Then the necessary decline of non-voluntary learning and rise of the self-assured will which perfects itself in the glorious sunlight of the free person may be somewhat expressed as follows: knowledge must die and rise again as will and create itself anew each day as a free person.