Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

[H]history suggests that one is not well advised to bring a spreadsheet to a gun fight.

Whether [a] feeling accords with justice and sound judgment, is not the sole question, if indeed, it is any part of it. A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded, can not be safely disregarded.

[A]narchy is about taking complete responsibility for yourself. And I would extend that into the spiritual area, with the differences between religion and magic.

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.

“ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge”