I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.

Every people, like every person, . . . has a right to be itself.

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."

The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.