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.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.