Through all the years that I spent formulating my philosophical system, I was looking desperately for “intelligent agreement” or at least for “intelligent disagreement.” I found neither. Today, I am not looking for “intelligent disagreement” any longer ... What I am looking for is intelligent agreement.

Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to settle disputes among men according to objective laws ... The greatness of the Founding Fathers was how well they understood this issue and how close some of them came to understanding it perfectly.

The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.

That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.