I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The ….

The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face..

Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy — an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality — many of its myths are distorted, dramatized ….

He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see….

She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken..

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and ….

The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is true tha….

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life..

Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed….

Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” An indi….

but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons..

The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their cu….

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense..

The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee t….

But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of ….

It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a rain….

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience..

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life..

But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any random manner, bu….

Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others..

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing ….