We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may….

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

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom..

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..

Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work fo….

When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and h….

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification..

A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, ….

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't..

Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only….

The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was….

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….

Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing….

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight..

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion..

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the ….

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

Nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatever..

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