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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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And that is why I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important... What sex should involve is a...more

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Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of histor...more

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Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

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If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

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Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

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To irrational principles, one cannot be loyal. Ideas that are not derived from reality cannot be consistently practiced in reality.--as quoted by Leon...more

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Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surren...more

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Whenever anyone accuses some person of being ‘unfeeling,’ he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and w...more

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They said you were hard and cold and unfeeling.”“But it’s true...I am, in the sense they mean—only have they ever told you in just what sense they mea...more

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Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are ...more

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To think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call ‘human nature,’ the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact tha...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

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Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by...more