I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.
The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.
Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?
Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.
In meetings philosophy might work,on the field practicality works.
Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.
Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no in...
Who is John Galt?
A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do your thinking—that the vilest form of self-abaseme...