Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.

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

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.

I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours