It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way.

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.