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For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.

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The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, ...more

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If, to him, love was a celebration of one’s self and of existence—then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit of destruction was the only fo...more

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The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was wrong, she thought, it was viciously wrong that on...more

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To think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call ‘human nature,’ the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact tha...more

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Man’s life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being—n...more

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Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by...more

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Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is that nameless act which al...more

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The anti-mind is the anti-life.

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A being of volitional consciousness has no automatic course of behavior. He needs a code of values to guide his actions. ‘Value’ is that which one act...more

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A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to c...more

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A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?

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Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be wiped o...more

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There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man’s Life is its standard of value.All that which is proper to the life of a rational be...more

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To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing hi...more