It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.