Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.
But there are people who’ll try to hurt you through the good they see in you – knowing that it’s the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don’t let it break you when you discover that.
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves – or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.
A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack.
A house can have integrity, just like a person, and just as seldom.
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
