Quotes

Richard Hofstadter on the distinction between intelligence and intellect. Intelligence is “an excellence of mind that is employed within a fairly narrow, immeadiate and

The collectivists were right about collective wisdom, but that wisdom is reflected in the market, not in the decision making of individual politicians. In

in times like these in which we live, it will not do to be overscrupulous. It is easy to sacrifice the substantial interests of

And do not the warm, rapturous sensations which we feel from the counsciousness of an honest, noble, generous, benevolent action convey more delight to

In human history, most people in most places most of the time have existed in stagnant economies.

do not surrender your faith to those who discredit and debase politics by scoffing at sentiment and principle, and whose political activity consists in

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits

The great German poet, Goethe, who also lived through a crisis of freedom, said to his generation: “What you have inherited from your fathers,

My motivation as I look back on it was an internal compulsion to understand reality and develop a unified philosophy of life. I suppose

Roark is the genuine human being, because he exemplifies a man who has reached perfection. He found the philosophy proper to man, and he