True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

If you are focused on your calling, the efforts of any adversary will prove powerless

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.

Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time.

If you are what you eat, then I only want to eat the good stuff.

I have a deep attachment to the natural world. It's a major influence on my writing, and as I look out over the wonderful snow-covered Santa Fe hills, I'm grateful for every day that I live here.

Tradition - one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.

Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.