The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. . . . I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.

Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, you will remain in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives, forgetting loses the lesson.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you can take action and use it.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.