Another common error is to identify ‘Apollonian’ with ‘good’ – merely because our most respectable sects are all rather Apollonian in ritual and precept. Mere local prejudice.
Getting a problem analyzed is two-thirds of solving it.
Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.
Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you’ll never really satisfy yourself that you’ve made it, and accept that that’s okay.
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How’s that again? I missed something.
A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
I have never been able to see how a thirty-year old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year old genius...
A human being has no natural rights of any nature.
I don’t trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.
Democracy can survive anything except Democrats.
People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.
There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other “sins” are invented nonsense.
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
You can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.