But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment.

Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority.

A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent – who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the “whole” and accept humbly that the “whole’s” verdict – we don’t get a collective super-brain. We get only the weak, meek, submissive and impotent collective mind.

Every loneliness is a pinnacle

Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.