Pursuit-of-happiness Quotes

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devo...

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

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...

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...

We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike...

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

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...

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness...

A true saying it is, ‘Desire hath no rest;‘ is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a p...

The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received...

We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior ...

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impa...