Religion Is A Collective Insanity.

To My Utter Despair I Have Discovered, And Discover Every Day Anew, That There Is In The Masses No Revolutionary Idea Or Hope Or Passion.

But I Recognize No Infallible Authority, Even In Special Questions; Consequently, Whatever Respect I May Have For The Honesty And The Sincerity Of Such Or Such An Individual, I Have No Absolute Faith In Any Person.

If God Really Existed, It Would Be Necessary To Abolish Him.

I Feel Myself Always The Patriot Of All Oppressed Fatherlands. Nationality Is A Historic, Local Fact Which, Like All Real And Harmless Facts, Has The Right To Claim General Acceptance. Every People, Like Every Person, Is Involuntarily That Which It Is And Therefore Has A Right To Be Itself. Nationality Is Not A Principle; It Is A Legitimate Fact, Just As Individuality Is. Every Nationality, Great Or Small, Has The Incontestable Right To Be Itself, To Live According To Its Own Nature. This Right Is Simply The Corollary Of The General Principal Of Freedom.

No Theory, No Ready-made System, No Book That Has Ever Been Written Will Save The World. I Cleave To No System. I Am A True Seeker.