The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power.

People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.

The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible... But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.

She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word "why?

Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.