"Of late, with his new habit of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before." Metamorphosis and Other Stories

“Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, ‘He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.‘” 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities. The Critic as Artist

Religious values tend to be especially deeply held and hence frequent cause of disastrous behaviour. [...] The modern world provides us with abundant secular examples of admirable values to which we cling under conditions where those values no longer make sense [...] It appears to me that much of the rigid opposition to environmental concerns in the First World nowadays involves values acquired early in life and never again reexamined [...]. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed