No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.
Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.
The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.
I don’t approve of religion.
Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.
What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.
To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.
It was the joy of admiration and of one’s own ability, growing together.
This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.
When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it’s his thinking that you want him to suspend.
Kant is the most evil man in mankind’s history.
What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an ‘open mind,’ but an active mind – a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.
To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started.
There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.
The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.
It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves the moral character of another person...
I saw that evil was impotent – that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real – and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.