“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”

“Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.”

“The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.”

“The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.”

“Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.”

“It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

“Even things that are true can be proved.”