Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality-not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute.

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority.