"Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot escape, these two are the irreducible primaries imp...
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
~ Ayn Rand ~
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"The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man’s first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of...
"In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone... Men exchange their work by free, mutual consent to mutual advantage when thei...
"Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
"The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.
"Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak.
"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so m...
"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...
"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...
"A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?
"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...
"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...
"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...
"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...
"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...