Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important.

This god, this one word: I.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.