Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism.

I don’t approve of religion.

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

It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the shape of a question mark.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.