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Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such disc...more

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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

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Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.

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She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now...more

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Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular s...more

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The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

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In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

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Man is an end in himself.

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Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to...more

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I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

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My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achieveme...more

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Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own exis...more

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Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

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A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

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Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means ...more