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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity
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The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.
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He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.
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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.
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To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.
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The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
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The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.
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No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
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To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.
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The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.
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We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
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