John C. Wright Quotes

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• One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a wider…
• Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is…
• If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of…
• A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that…
• What would the world be like if you had to develop a power yourself before you could use it? Just as a silly example: How…
• Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good or no, these…
• If Vulcans had a church, they’d be Catholics.
• Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot…
• My wife is a Christian and is extraordinary patient, logical, and philosophical. For years, I would challenge and condemn her beliefs, battering the structure of…
• A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.

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