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Insanity is the exception in individuals. In groups, parties, peoples, and times, it is the rule.

Mankind, like any other animal species, produces an excess of abortive, diseased, degenerate, defective, and necessarily suffering specimens; the successful specimens, in men as well, are always the exception.

Everything deep loves masks; the deepest things have a veritable hatred for image and likeness.

Every select man seeks instinctively to find his castle, his secret place, where he is absolved of the mass, the many, the majority - where he may forget the human rule, being himself the exception.

the latest part of conscious thinking must be considered an instinctual activity, even in the case of philosophical thinking.

Ireland is unique in religious history for being the only land into which Christianity was introduced without bloodshed.

... all provinces of the empire turn towards the great sea, toward Medi-Terra-nea - the Sea of Middle Earth.

... This proposition shows how very stupid 'clever' people can be when carried away by their theories.

... far more effort is being put into improving survival rates than on promoting birth-control, which alone can provide a long-term answer to the problem (overpopulation).

... and it came to pass that they did put two and two together and start a religion around him, and it did spread far and wide across the land

The inability to act spontaneously, to express what one genuinely feels and thinks, and the resulting necessity to present a pseudo self to others and oneself, are the root of the feeling of inferiority and weakness.

Modern man is ready to take great risks when he tries to achieve the aims which are supposed to be "his"; but he is deeply afraid of taking the risk and responsibility of giving himself his own aims.

Another closely related way of discouraging original thinking is to regard all truth as relative.

Only those at the bottom of the social pyramid, who sell nothing but their physical labor, and those at the very top do not need to be particularly "pleasant."

the first culture of mankind certainly depended less on the tamed animals, but rather on the use of inferior people.

Nazism is a psychological problem, but the psychological factors themselves have to be understood as being molded by socio-economic factors; Nazism is an economic and political problem, but the hold it has over a whole people has to be understood on psychological grounds.

The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength of destructiveness.

The authoritarian character worships the past. What has been, will eternally be. To wish or to work for something that has not yet been before is crime or madness. The miracle of creation - and creation is always a miracle - is outside of his range of emotional experience.