...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.

Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies.

We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.

The community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members. The interest of the community then is what? The sum of the interests of the several members who compose it.

… just as the limb gives assistance to the body, likewise the member of the community helps the community and reigns supreme.

We do not suffer by accident.

Sanity doesn’t suffer, ever.

When it's for each other that people give things up they don't miss them.

A true community consists of individuals - not mere species members, not couples - respecting each others individuality and privacy while at the same time interacting with each other mentally and emotionally - free spirits in free relation to each other - and co-operating with each other to achieve common ends. Traditionalists say the basic unit of "society" is the family; "hippies" say the tribe; noone says the individual.

… because contrary to what people say, two weaknesses don't make for a still greater weakness, but for renewed strength ...

It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.

Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them?

Dem Mimen flicht die Nachwelt keine Kränze.

Equity does not take away from anybody.