A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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).
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
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.
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.
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.
There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.
It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
I 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. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
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