"The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, ...
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"In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he was. She knew, even though she was too young to k...
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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...
"Your moral code begins by damning man as evil, then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to practice…It demands that...
"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...
"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...
"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...
"The anti-mind is the anti-life.
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"A being of volitional consciousness has no automatic course of behavior. He needs a code of values to guide his actions. ‘Value’ is that which one act...
"A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to c...
"A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?
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"There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man’s Life is its standard of value.All that which is proper to the life of a rational be...