The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know.

Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.