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- Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.
- The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.
- It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will…
- Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to…
- Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the…
- An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be…
- I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.
- But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any…
- You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island…
- But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into…
- That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.
- Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only…
- The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.
- The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other…
- Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only by the grace…
- An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good…
- Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he has to hold…
- All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
- Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do…
- If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania…
- If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and . . . if I…
- Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a lifelong process - and the higher the values, the…
- The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality.…
- Live a life as a monument to your soul.
- The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
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- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle