“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”

“What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?”

“The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-intentioned individuals in association is to live in accordance with those truths, to demonstrate what happens when theory is translated into practice, to create small-scale working models of the better form of society to which the speculative idealist looks forward.”

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”

“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.”

“In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act”

“They pretended they were trying to dissuade people from vice by enumerating its horrors. But they were really only making it more spicy by telling the truth about it. O esca vermium, O massa pulveris! What nauseating embracements! To conjugate the copulative verb, boringly, with a sack of tripes – what could be more exquisitely and piercingly and deliriously vile?”