Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.
A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.
Freedom requires guns.
I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.
Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.
Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.
We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.
Nothing is a violent as football and I bet you like. Just say you don't like it, or can't identify, don't come up with excuses like "It's too violent" while you wear some team's NFL jersey.
The deepest level of truth uncovered by science, & by philosophy, is the fundamental truth of unity. At that deepest subnuclear level of our reality, you & i are literally one.