There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value.

The word 'We' is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y delimited sphere of action--for choosing the practical means of implementing a society’s basic principles. But those principles are not determined by vote.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.