Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards..

I am a man who does not exist for others..

Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What are your masses but million….

You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip b….

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity..

For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to you….

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It….

When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could have no concern for mine a….

Most American men are repressors..

And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us th….

Whether it’s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity to see through one’….

She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to ….

A house can have integrity, just like a person..

One's own independent judgment is the means by which one must choose one's actions, but it is not a moral criterion nor a moral validation; only refe….

They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxati….

I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is ….

I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of the sun on his untroubled forehead and closed….

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate..

A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional v….

Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the princ….

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires..