I wish to deal with my most distinguished contemporaries, not personally or in a merely literary manner, but in relation to the real body of doctrine which they teach. I am not concerned with Mr. Rudyard Kipling as a vivid artist or a vigorous personality; I am concerned with him as a Heretic - that is to say, a man whose view of things has the hardihood to differ from mine. I am not concerned with Mr. Bernard Shaw as one of the most brilliant and one of the most honest men alive; I am concerned with him as a Heretic - that is to say, a man whose philosophy is quite solid, quite coherent, and quite wrong.

When everything about a people is for the time growing weak and ineffective, it begins to talk about efficiency. So it is that when a man's body is a wreck he …

As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

There are some people, nevertheless - and I am one of them - who think that the most practical and important thing about a man is still his view of the univers…

The doctrine of the divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity.

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

'Most of the failings of Objectivism all pertain directly or indirectly to issues of psychology.'[1]