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...Opinion without a rational process.

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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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When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any v...more

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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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You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehead for all of them to see. You love it and they kno...more

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What you think is an illusion created by your glands your emotions and in the last analysis by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're...more

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I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother.

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Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to s...more

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...if ever you hear a man telling you that you must be happy, that it’s your natural right, that your first duty is to yourself—that will be the man w...more

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The exquisite kindliness of her manner suggested that their relationship was of no possible consequence, that she could not pay him the tribute of hos...more

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A young woman stood before the railing, speaking to the reception clerk. Her slender body seemed out of all scale in relation to a normal human body; ...more

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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You ...more

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Well, whose opinion did you take?”“I don’t ask for opinions.”“What do you go by?”“Judgment.”“Well, whose judgment did you take?”“Mine.”“But whom did y...more

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It was as if a volcano were cracking open, yet the people at the foot of the mountain ignored the sudden fissures, the black fumes, the boiling trickl...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