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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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Man is an end in himself.

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Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in th...more

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A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

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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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To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for t...more

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We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.

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When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

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For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.

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The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was wrong, she thought, it was viciously wrong that on...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

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Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is that nameless act which al...more