Neither the good nor the true is self-realizing, so it is not generally a sufficient explanation of why people believe that X is true, or of why people do Y that Y is good.

Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question.

The Kantian philosophy is no more than at best a half-secularized version of such a theocratic ethics, with "Reason" in the place of God. This does not amount to much more than a change of names.

The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share.

One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential.

The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.

How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

I enjoy seeing anybody do good. I have no hard feelings.