Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man’s lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one’s self.
It is possible I can make very little of myself; but this little is everything, and better than what I allow to be made out of me by the might of others, by the training of custom, religion, the laws, the State.
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.
Here we come upon the old, old craze of the world, which has not yet learned to do without clericalism–that to live and work *for an idea*is man’s calling, and according to the faithfulness its fulfilment his *human worth* is measured
The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish.
God cares only for what is his, busies himself with only himself, thinks only of himself, and has only himself before his eyes…He serves no higher person, and satisfies only himself. His cause is–A purely egoistic cause.
The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact but a legal fiction.
Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact but a legal fiction.
Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.