Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary.
Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
Self-esteem is reliance on ones power to think.
Whoever defends his own rights defends the rights of all.
Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another’s values.
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists – and in a single choice: to live.
One’s own independent judgment is the means by which one must choose one’s actions, but it is not a moral criterion nor a moral validation; only reference to a demonstrable principle can validate one’s choices.
To preserve one’s mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.
Rulers exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as dependent as the beggar, the social worker and the bandit. The form of dependence does not matter.
Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked: ‘Account Overdrawn.’
Don’t bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes.
Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, ‘greed’ has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.
As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.
Most American men are repressors.
I am unwilling to be wholly good – and please don’t regard me as wholly evil!
Economics departments are dominated by Marxism, which is taken straight or on the rocks, in the form of Keynesianism.
An artist reveals his naked soul in his work.