Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die... His whole life is absorbed in avoiding death, which is inevitable, and therefore he might be thought to be the most irrational of men, if rationality has anything to do with understanding ends or comprehending the human situation as such.

The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend himself against the new tyrant, the one who can break the law.

The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.