Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.

...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant or agent of the citizens; it means that the government as such has no rights except the rights delegated to it by the citizens for a specific purpose.

Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.

Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.