Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.