Because, you see, God - whatever anyone chooses to call God - is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest con….

I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason..

The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing..

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the….

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the re….

Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont.

A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry..

Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right..

Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others..

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there….

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of ….

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of producti….

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist and the self-con….

The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO..

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing..

It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want ….

An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good for it ….

Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, see….

The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my va….

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist..

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy..