Occupation: Novelist Birth: February 2, 1905 Death: March 6, 1982
...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a stand….
I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their fellows. Nowaday….
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights..
I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of m….
Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history..
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue..
And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should w….
It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices..
We cannot fight against collectivism, unless we fight against its moral base: altruism. We cannot fight against altruism, unless we fight against its….
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone..
Words are a lens to focus one's mind..
Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, th….
Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence..
She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it no….
She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it..
Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it..
Man holds these rights [life, liberty and property], not from the Collective nor for the Collective, but against the Collective - as a barrier which ….
Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?.
It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ….
I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life..
Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when….