“We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.”

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.

Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.

I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.

You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.

A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can’t now.

Follow your instincts and live with the consequences.