No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish.

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

From the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and get hold of himself out of its confusion, in which he, with everything else, is tossed about in motley mixture.

Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property.

Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

Thus the radii of all education run together into one center which is called personality.