The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.