Every loneliness is a pinnacle

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason.

Parties are intended to be celebrations, and celebrations should be only for those who have something to celebrate.

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters are those who regard man as a helpless, depraved, contemptible creature-and struggle never to let him discover otherwise.

These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of man’s freedom. 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. This and nothing else.