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(1905-1982) '' Verified "I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction." Source: Anthem "It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener." Source: Atlas Shrugged "The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it." Source: Atlas Shrugged "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 can be no compromise on basic principles." Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal "Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it." Source: Atlas Shrugged "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men." Source The Fountainhead "Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential." Source: The Fountainhead "The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face." Source: Question period following Lecture 11 of Leonard Peikoff's series "The Philosophy of Objectivism," 1976 Attributed "Guilt is a rope that wears thin." "Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. … The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production." "Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values." "Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future." "There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist." "The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system—and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny." "He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating." "Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life."
Verified "I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction." Source: Anthem "It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener." Source: Atlas Shrugged "The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it." Source: Atlas Shrugged "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 can be no compromise on basic principles." Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal "Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it." Source: Atlas Shrugged "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men." Source The Fountainhead "Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential." Source: The Fountainhead "The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face." Source: Question period following Lecture 11 of Leonard Peikoff's series "The Philosophy of Objectivism," 1976 Attributed "Guilt is a rope that wears thin." "Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. … The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production." "Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values." "Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future." "There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist." "The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system—and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny." "He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating." "Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life."