I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their fellows. Nowadays, they're afraid that somebody will name what everybody knows. Have you practical people ever thought that that's all it would take to blast your whole, big, complex structure, with all your laws and guns - just somebody naming the exact nature of what you're doing?

America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

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

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.

Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.

Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.