The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

[What for] was the first question he asked about any activity proposed to him - and nothing would make him act, if he found no valid answer. He flew through the days of his summer month like a rocket, but if one stopped him in mid-flight, he could always name the purpose of his every random moment. Two things were impossible to him: to stand still or to move aimlessly.

What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.

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

If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?