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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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Man is an end in himself.

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Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other value...more

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Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in th...more

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

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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your m...more

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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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We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.

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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

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I am done with the monster of "We," the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame.And now I see the face of god, and I raise this go...more

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Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.

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For our face and body were beautiful. Our face was not like the faces of our brothers, for we felt not pity when looking upon it. Our body was not lik...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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It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ears gives its song to t...more

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I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have b...more