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“Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by it’s own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.”

Book:The Prophet

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The Prophet

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“It was his self-esteem she had sought to destroy, knowing that a man who surrenders his value is at the mercy of anyone’s will; it was his moral purity she had struggled to breach, it was his confident rectitude she had wanted to shatter by means of the poison of guilt—as if, were he to collapse, his depravity would give her a right to hers.”

Evil Atlas Shrugged Hank Rearden

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“A being of volitional consciousness has no automatic course of behavior. He needs a code of values to guide his actions. ‘Value’ is that which one acts to gain and keep, 'virtue’ is the action by which one gains and keeps it. ‘Value’ presupposes an answer to the question: of value to whom and for what? 'Value’ presupposes a standard, a purpose and the necessity of action in the face of an alternative. Where there are no alternatives, no values are possible.”

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Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man’s Life is its standard of value. All that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; all that which destroys it is the evil.”

Thinking Life Mind Reason Philosophy Values Evil Virtue Morality Good Rational Man Morals Think Pursuit Of Happiness Objectivism Atlas Shrugged John Galt

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does not hold his own life as the motive and goal of his actions, is acting on the motive and standard of death.”

Thinking Life Mind Reason Philosophy Values Evil Virtue Morality Good Rational Man Morals Think Pursuit Of Happiness Objectivism Atlas Shrugged John Galt

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.”

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Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any random manner, but will perish unless he lives as his nature requires, so he is free to seek his happiness in any mindless fraud, but the torture of frustration is all he will find, unless he seeks the happiness proper to man. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”

Thinking Life Mind Reason Philosophy Happiness Values Evil Virtue Morality Good Rational Man Morals Think Pursuit Of Happiness Objectivism Atlas Shrugged John Galt

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Not long ago, man grew a sense of conscience. He defined himself by what he is, what he thinks, and, more importantly, what he feels—failing to realize that all come from One single source. All of man’s qualities come from One divine being. And that One being has bestowed nature’s hand with the ability to balance itself. Where there is good, there is also evil. And where evil arises, so does good”

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Book:The Rise of Shams

Source: The Rise of Shams

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