And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual - in the name of man.

what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about

Individual consciousness is just sickness.

Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")