Nationalism Is An Infantile Disease. It Is

For An Idea That Does Not First Seem Insane, There Is No Hope.

I Am Content In My Later Years. I Have Kept My Good Humor And Take Neither Myself Nor The Next Person Seriously.

I Do Not Believe In Immortality Of The Individual, And I Consider Ethics To Be An Exclusively Human Concern With No Superhuman Authority Behind It.

Try First To Be A Man Of Value; Success Will Follow.

Man Is, At One And The Same Time, A Solitary Being And A Social Being. As A Solitary Being, He Attempts To Protect His Own Existence And That Of Those Who Are Closest To Him, To Satisfy His Personal Desires, And To Develop His Innate Abilities. As A Social Being, He Seeks To Gain The Recognition And Affection Of His Fellow Human Beings, To Share In Their Pleasures, To Comfort Them In Their Sorrows, And To Improve Their Conditions Of Life.