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True love is profoundly selfish, in the noblest meaning of the word -- it is an expression of one's self, of one's highest values.

An organism's life is its standard of value: that which furthers its life is the good, that which threatens it is the evil.

The essence of life is the achievement of joy, not the escape from pain.

Tribalism is a product of fear, and fear is the dominant emotion of any person, culture or society that rejects reason.

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.

When no actual suffering can be found, the altruists are compelled to invent or manufacture it.

A philosophy out to destroy man's mind is necessarily a philosophy of hatred for man, for man's life, and for every human value.

The first moral obligation of any spokesman, high or low, is to practice what he preaches.

All philosophical con games count on your using words as vague approximations.

A creative mind does nothing to another mind -- except offer it material to digest, which the other mind may digest or not, as it pleases.

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win.

You can't have your cake and let your neighbor eat it, too.

Humanity's darkest evil, the most destructive horror machine among all the devices of men, is non-objective law.

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power.

Of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character.

A rational man never holds a desire or pursues a goal, which cannot be achieved directly or indirectly by his own effort.

To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: Reason--Purpose--Self-esteem.

Of what use is a theory which cannot be applied to practice?

Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality---not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind.

A public of rightless creatures is doomed to destruction.

The best way to fight racists of any color, black or white, is never to allow their ideas into your own mind.

A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Every argument for God and every attribute ascribed to Him rests on a false metaphysical premise. None can survive for a moment on a correct metaphysics.

To exist is to possess identity. What identity are they able to give to their superior realm? They keep telling you what it is not, but never tell you what it is.

They claim that they perceive a mode of being superior to your existence on this earth. The mystics of spirit call it “another dimension” which consists of denying dimensions. The mystics of muscle call it “the future” which consists of denying the present

All their identifications consist of negating: God is that which no human mind can know, they say—and proceed to demand that you consider it knowledge—God is non-man, heaven is non-earth, soul is non-body, virtue is non-profit, A is non-A, perception is no

... perception is non-sensory, knowledge is non-reason. Their definitions are not acts of defining, but of wiping out.

A secular political movement does not exclude religious people. A religious political movement does exclude nonreligious people.