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The guillotine is implicit in the idea of altruism.

Man's consciousness is his least known and most abused vital organ.

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. One of them is wrong.

A man's sexual choice is the result and sum of his fundamental convictions. Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself.

The Founding Fathers spoke of the right to the pursuit of happiness, not of the right to happiness.

A nation ruled by brute physical force is not a nation, but a horde--whether it is led by Attila, Genghis Khan, Hitler, Khrushchev or Castro.

Even if one is imprisoned in some ghastly dictatorship's jail, serenity comes from the knowledge that one does not accept it.

Private racism is not a legal, but a moral issue - and can be fought only by private means, such as economic boycott or social ostracism.

Logic is the art of reasoning correctly about observed facts - but not of creating the facts. Logic presupposes existence.

I am not brave enough to be a coward. I see the consequences too clearly.

All work is an act of philosophy.

Man's volition is an attribute of his consciousness (of his rational faculty) and consists in the choice to perceive existence or to evade it.

Your emotions are estimates of that which furthers your life or threatens it, lightning calculators giving you a sum or your profit or loss.

Correspondence to reality is the standard of value by which one estimates a theory.

The present breakdown of America is not the failure of Capitalism, but the result of men abandoning the principles of Capitalism.

To rebel against the metaphysically given is to engage in a futile attempt to negate existence.

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In the realm of cognition, the special sciences are the trees, but philosophy is the soil which makes the forest possible.

The hallmark of the second-rater is resentment of another man's achievement.

A judge puts himself on trial every time he pronounces a verdict.

Yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you to escape it.

Moral neutrality necessitates a progressive sympathy for vice and a progressive antagonism to virtue.

In a fully free society, taxation - or, to be exact, payment for governmental services - would be voluntary.

Slavery is slavery, and its purpose does not change its nature.

Nobody's good can be achieved at the price of human sacrifices.

A group, as such, has no rights. A man can neither acquire new rights by joining a group nor lose the rights which he does possess.

Rationalization is a process not of perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions.

The concept of "self-interest" identifies only one's motivation, not the nature of the values that one should choose.