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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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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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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

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That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call ‘free will’ is your mind’s freedom to think or not, the only wi...more

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Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders’ attempt to evade the fac...more

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Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness...more

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Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

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Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

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To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attribute...more

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Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. Reason is the faculty that perceives, identifies and integrat...more

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No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It ...more

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This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

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And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt