They say sound never dies, but travels on in space--what happens to a man's heartbeats?--so many of them in fifty-six years--could they be gathered again, in some sort of condenser, and put to use onc...
They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.
There's nothing of any importance in life—except how well you do your work.
There are no defenders of man’s mind—in the world’s greatest scientific-technological civilization. All that is left is a battle between the mystics of spirit and the mystics of muscle—between men gui...
The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial.
The respectable family that supports worthless relatives or covers up their crimes in order to protect the family name(as if the moral stature of one man could be damaged by the actions of another)-th...
The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.
The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of green so bright and pure that it hurt the eyes; the rest we...
That, precisely, is the deadliness of second-handers. They have no concern for facts, ideas, work. They're concerned only with people. They don't ask: 'Is this true?' They ask: 'Is this what others th...
She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word why?
She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.
Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows himself to be dishonest, but others think he’s honest and h...
Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.
Love is the ultimate form of recognition one grants to superlative values.
Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.
It's not just the kind of work you do; I wouldn't care, if you were an exhibitionist who's being different as a stunt, as a lark, just to attract attention to himself. It's a smart racket, to oppose t...
It's because it makes no difference to her at all whether I speak or not; as if I didn't exist and never had existed... the thing more inconceivable than one's death--never to have been born...
It was a long story and the spirt which moved it was the spirit of man's freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be...
It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the sh...