Remember this— that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. Book IV

If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything The Castle

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in art, in music, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man. East Of Eden

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. The Soul of Man Under Socialism