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.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

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.

An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.