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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his “divine service.”

The self is hateful.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.