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| In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe | | Adventure | |
| In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours. | | Dreams | |
| Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). | | Right; Voting | |
| Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. | | Uncategorized | |
| It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. | | Uncategorized | |
| Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. | | Uncategorized | |
| know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. | | Uncategorized | |
| Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality | | Uncategorized | |
| Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love. | | Uncategorized | |
| Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. | | Love; Reward; Value | |
| Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be. | | Choice; Freedom; Mankind | |
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| Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. | | Uncategorized | |
| Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. | | Money | |
| Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. | | Money | |
| Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started. | | Wealth | |
| People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it- walk. | | Conviction | |
| Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of realistic necessity is: "You must, if " and the "if" stands for man's choice | | Reality | |
| Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. | | Reason | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
