John-galt Quotes

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, ...

He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extingui...

To think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call ‘human nature,’ the open secret...

Man’s life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a m...

Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is t...

Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the sour...

The anti-mind is the anti-life.

A being of volitional consciousness has no automatic course of behavior. He needs a code of values t...

A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to prot...

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Righ...

Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. ...

There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man’s Life is its standard of value.All...

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent t...

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call ‘free will’ i...

Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action,...

Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world...

Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of exist...

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice — and the alternative hi...

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification...

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for hi...

Happiness is the successful state of life, pain is an agent of death. Happiness is that state of con...

Sweep aside those hatred-eaten mystics, who pose as friends of humanity and preach that the highest ...

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free t...

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an enti...

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. Reason is t...

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is o...

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence...

Man’s life is the standard of morality, but your own life is its purpose . If existence on earth is ...

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his h...

Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or no...

And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth a...

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing...

No, you do not have to live as a man; it is an act of moral choice. But you cannot live as anything ...

Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given t...

There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another—if me...

Through all the ages the mind has been regarded as evil, and every form of insult: from heretic to m...

It’s not that I don’t suffer, it’s that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to...

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit h...

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s valu...

Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does ...

Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot e...

You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed...

Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need...

Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil. But it is not ma...