What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.

The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.

We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody.

The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.

I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency.

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.