There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much.

Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.

The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.