If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.

Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, christianity and so forth, and only seem to go about free because the madhouse in which they walk takes in so broad a space?

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

Nothing is more to me than myself.

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

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.

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.