Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
AYN RANDThe entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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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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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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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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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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