“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”

“The great epochs of life come when we gain the courage to re-christen our evil as what is best in us”

“A thinking man never be a party man.”

“In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.”

“Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.”

“To make an individual uncomfortable, that is my task.”