"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."
"He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see."
"Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration."
"Man is an end in himself."