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She had been proved right so eloquently, she had thought, that comments were unnecessary.

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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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Do you know what she did today?" He leaned confidentially across the table, pointing at the dishes in the sink. "She went to the market and left all t...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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While a creator does and must worship Man (which means his own highest potentiality; which is his natural self-reverence), he must not make the mistak...more

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

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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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Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

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Well, whose opinion did you take?”“I don’t ask for opinions.”“What do you go by?”“Judgment.”“Well, whose judgment did you take?”“Mine.”“But whom did y...more

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They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of cha...more

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No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice.

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Señor d.‘Anconia, what do you think is going to happen to the world?”“Just exactly what it deserves.”“Oh, how cruel!”“Don’t you believe in the operati...more