Individuality

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.

There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.