Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or….

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other..

The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving n….

The genius must have his freedom and his independence..

Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive another of his life, o….

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind..

Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of a….

Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality..

There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the convict….

Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only by….

I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of th….

A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway….

It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money..

That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who speak of love….

Her face lay still on the air under his face..

A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to know by what means that result was achiev….

They had rejected the soul-body dichotomy, with its two corollaries: the impotence of man's mind and the damnation of this earth; they had rejected t….

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points..

I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life..

The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive — a definition that invalidat….

...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason..