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* Todo impuesto específico, así como todo el sistema de impuestos de una nación, se invalida a sí mismo por encima de una cierta tasa de impuestos.
== Money and inflation ==
* Government is the only institution that can take a perfectly good piece of paper, print some noble words on it, and make it perfectly worthless.
* La crítica científica no tiene fin más noble que el de destruir creecias falsas.
* La Ciencia no nos da certeza absoluta y definitiva. Sólamente nos da seguridad dentro de los límites de nuestras habilidades mentales y del estado en el que esté el pensamiento científico.
* Los hechos por sí mismos no pueden probar ni refutar nada. Todo es decidido por la interpretación y la explicación de los hechos, por las ideas y las teorías.
* La Educación crea discípulos, imitadores y seguidores de rutinas, no pioneros de nuevas ideas ni genios creativos. Las escuelas no son jardines de infancia de progreso y mejora, sino conservatorios de tradición y de formas de pensamiento fijas.
* Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.
* La función biológica de La Razón es el preservar y el promover la vida y el retrasar su extinción todo lo que sea posible. Pensar y actuar no son cosas contrarias a la naturaleza; son, más bien, las características sobresalientes de la naturaleza del hombre.
* Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.
* La clase de aquellos que tienen la habilidad de pensar sus propios pensamientos está separada por un oceano infranqueable de la clase de los que no la tienen.
* There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.
* El criterio de la verdad es que funciona incluso cuando nadie está preparado para reconocerlo.
* The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behavior...lacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.
* Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.
* Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.
* Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.
* 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.
* Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate description of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life.
* The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.
* The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
"All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out."
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