Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist only as parasites on the thinking of others.

Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes." My dear fellow, who will let you?" That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics.

The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.

I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important.

I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.

But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.