Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience-that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible-that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

I'm not brave enough to be a coward; I see the consequences too clearly.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will be liberated when grasps that nature, to be apprehended, must be obeyed - that the rules of cognition must be derived from the nature of existence and the nature, the identity, of his cognitive faculty.

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice