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"Nobody can be certain of anything" is a rationalization for a feeling of envy and hatred toward those who are certain.

Man must obtain his knowledge and choose his actions by a process of thinking, which nature will not force him to perform.

So long as men can speak and write freely, they still have a chance to reform society or to put it on a better road.

What objectivity and the study of philosophy require is not an open mind, but an active mind.

Integrity does not consist of loyalty to one's subjective whims, but of loyalty to rational principles.

By the essence and nature of existence, contradictions cannot exist.

Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us.

Individual rights are an absolute, not to be balanced or limited by anybody.

Racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own inferiority.

I deal with men as my nature and theirs demands: by means of reason.

I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.

There is only one antidote to racism: the philosophy of individualism and its politco-economic corollary, laissez-faire capitalism.

The creator originates. The parasite borrows. The creator faces nature alone. The parasite faces nature through an intermediary.

The best method of destroying superiority is to hail as superiority its very antithesis: the small, the meaningless, the average.

Natural objects can be reshaped to serve men's goals and are to be regarded as means to men's ends, but man himself cannot and is not.

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

It is only the concept of "Life" that makes the concept of "Value" possible. It is only to a living entity that things can be good or evil.

The concept of proof presupposes the existence of axioms from which such proof is derived.

By the essence and nature of existence, contradictions cannot exist.

Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent.

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

Instead of prosperity, socialism has brought economic paralysis and/or collapse to every country that tried it.

The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt.

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right not to agree, not to listen and not to finance one's own antagonists.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Any group or "collective," large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.

Man's interests, or advantages, are neither opposed nor united to the interests and advantages of other men; they are independent.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

No man can expect to be an innovator and, simultaneously, expect to find a ready-made audience sharing the values he has not yet produced.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.