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

I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth

I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.