A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

Have you ever felt a potential love for someone? Like, you don't actually love them and you know you don't, but you know you could. You realise that you could easily fall in love with them. It's almost like the bud of a flower, ready to blossom but it's just not quite there yet. And you like them a lot, you really do. You think about them often, but you don't love them. You could, though. You know you could.

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness; the liberals, his body.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage-the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?