Occupation: Novelist Birth: February 2, 1905 Death: March 6, 1982
There are two side to every issue..
There is only one institution that can arrogate to itself the power legally to trade by means of rubber checks: the government. And it is the only in….
When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and ….
[What for] was the first question he asked about any activity proposed to him - and nothing would make him act, if he found no valid answer. He flew ….
An artist reveals his naked soul in his work..
You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be..
You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like ….
For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind..
A Conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it" - but an Individualist is NOT a man who declares, "It's true because I beli….
If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave lab….
But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence..
That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only w….
Evil requires the sanction of the victim..
Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue..
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who are not interested in philosop….
Man's character is the product of his premises..
Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done..
and he said her name to fill the space of five years..
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp ….
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that n….
In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone..