What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means is: "I am unwilling to be wholly good - and please don't regard me as wholly evil!"

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him. She found pleasure in the special self-consciousness it gave her. When she crossed her legs, when she leaned on her arm against the window sill, when she brushed her hair off her forehead - every movement of her body was underscored by a feeling the unadmitted words for which were: Is he seeing it?

Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to one’s own consciousness.

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

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