It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

The trick to loneliness is to spend a lot of time inside one’s head.

Hatred does not help us alleviate our pain even in the slightest.

Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.