Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest..

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought..

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself fro….

The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning mind..

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 betray it. It….

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue..

Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny..

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just..

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind..

I'm not brave enough to be a coward; I see the consequences too clearly..

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong..

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any ….

There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises..

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth..

I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy….

Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from….

The Romanticists predominantly, were enemies of capitalism, which they regarded as a prosaic, materialistic, “petty bourgeois” system — never realizi….

The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are….

But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for hi….

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force..

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake….