We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams. Votes: 15
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. Votes: 12
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. Votes: 6
A man by himself is in bad company. Votes: 0
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. Votes: 0
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. Votes: 0
We are made kind by being kind. Votes: 0
We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence. Votes: 0
The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves. Votes: 0
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. Votes: 0
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. Votes: 0
Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding. Votes: 0
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. Votes: 0
Children are the keys of paradise. Votes: 0
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. Votes: 0
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds. Votes: 0
Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death. Votes: 0
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents Votes: 0
Anger is the prelude to courage. Votes: 0
It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices. Votes: 0
It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music. Votes: 0
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. Votes: 0
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. Votes: 0
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity. Votes: 0
Anger is a prelude to courage. Votes: 0
We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression. Votes: 0
We cannot hate those who we despise. Votes: 0
To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. Votes: 0
It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous. Votes: 0
He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more. Votes: 0
A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities. Votes: 0
The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others. Votes: 0
The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves. Votes: 0
No one has a right to happiness. Votes: 0
They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society. Votes: 0
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. Votes: 0
Facts are counterrevolutionary. Votes: 0
However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. Votes: 0
Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power. Votes: 0
In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat. Votes: 0
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members. Votes: 0
Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet. Votes: 0
In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from. Votes: 0
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it Votes: 0
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success Votes: 0
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil. Votes: 0