If there is no higher reason--and there is none--then my own reason must be the supreme judge of my life

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

The anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that a

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.