Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows himself ….

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice..

There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a precondition of any discussio….

An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor ….

People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ough….

I am an innovator. This is a term of distinction, a term of honor, rather than something to hide or apologize for. Anyone who has new or valuable ide….

People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did not give or ask for reasons..

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other..

The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant or agent ….

Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every de….

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed.

Guilt is a rope that wears thin..

This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel..

You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehead for all of them to see. You love it and they kn….

Self-esteem is reliance on ones power to think..

There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think..

Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes..

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Ac….

If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to evade its exist….

It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted a….

I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!.