Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.

... reason accepts no commandments.

But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.

Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. "Things as they are" are things as perceived by your mind; divorce them from reason and they become "things as perceived by your wishes.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.