It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.
Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.
If you want to feel good, be rational.
Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.
Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.
One can’t love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.
The doctrine that ‘human rights’ are superior to ‘property rights’ simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.
I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.
If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.
Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.
This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.
The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.
Kill reverence and you’ve killed the hero in man.
Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted.
An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world.
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.
If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as “social gains”, if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as “selfish greed”.
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action.
Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.