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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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A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

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Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and...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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Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

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Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

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To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attribute...more

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Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. Reason is the faculty that perceives, identifies and integrat...more

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No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It ...more

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It does take an exceptional mind and a still more exceptional integrity to remain untouched by the brain-destroying influences of the world’s doctrine...more

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Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot escape, these two are the irreducible primaries imp...more

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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp o...more

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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

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When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a city charity affair which all ha...more

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A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.