There can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate dictated by your standards.

A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.
JOHN GALT

Body Doe Soul
If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to force the mind of others or the moral degenerate who grants to others the right to force his mind.
JOHN GALT

Degree Evil Mind
Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.
JOHN GALT

Abuse Government Law
Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.
JOHN GALT

Gain Mean Men
As there can be no causeless wealth, so there can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion.
JOHN GALT

Emotion Wealth
There can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate dictated by your standards.
JOHN GALT

Emotion Fact Reality
To rule without being felt…is the great mystery of policy.
JOHN GALT

Felt Mystery Policy
Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man’s hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence.
JOHN GALT

Feelings Men Self

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