Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude.

...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

The theory must not contradict empirical facts.

The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.

Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.