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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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To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for t...more

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He tried to explain and to convince. He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words sounded as if they were hitting a vacuum. There w...more

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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Acc...more

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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

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For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we proud of this thread of metal, or of our hands which ma...more

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The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we ...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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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