That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art..

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the lear….

Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself..

When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out t….

Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confiden….

It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener..

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so ….

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domest….

Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil..

All the evils, abuses, and iniquities, popularly ascribed to businessmen and to capitalism, were not caused by an unregulated economy or by a free ma….

You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues..

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very ow….

And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men..

I am. I think. I will..

The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's friend, saw them on….

An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor ….

People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ough….

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other..

Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every de….

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Ac….

I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!.