But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate. I wonder, for it is hard for me to conceive how men who knew the word "I," could give it up and not know what they lost. But such has been the story, for I have lived in the City of the damned, and I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon them.

Most American men are repressors.

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.

In order to fight any issue, it is necessary to fight for something, not merely against something.

To achieve, you need thought

By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.