The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
AYN RANDA culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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