“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”

“For rebelling against every form of authority fate has punished me by making me an authority.”

“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”

“A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.”

“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth”

“Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.”

“I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.”