You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
There’s nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.
You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.
In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose...
Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power.
Great men can’t be ruled.
There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason.
The attack on “selfishness” is an attack on man’s self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.
It is not as late as you think. It is merely early – in the age of the rebirth of individualism.
Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one’s interests to those of others.
Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.
Don’t rely on our knowledge of what’s best for your future. We do know, but it can’t be best until you know it.
In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary.
Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I’m challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man’s moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality.
Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.
I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions.
Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother’s keepers.
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.