Man's character is the product of his premises.

Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge.

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code of values; in order to define a code of values, he must know what he is and where he is – i.e. he must know his own nature (including his means of knowledge) and the nature of the universe in which he acts – i.e. he needs metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, which means: philosophy. He cannot escape from this need; his only alternative is whether the philosophy guiding him is to be chosen by his mind or by chance.

Freedom of association includes the freedom not to associate.