We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the...
We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?
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.
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth - the man who would make his own fortune no matter where he started. If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys hi...
Of course I need you. I go insane when I see you. You can do almost anything you wish with me. Is that what you want to hear? Almost, Dominique. And the things you couldn't make me do — you could put...
May knowledge come to us! What is this secret our heart has understood and yet will not reveal to us, although it seems to beat as if it were endeavoring to tell it?
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.
Be ugly, be God
A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.
Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value -...
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
There are two things we must get rid of early in life: a feeling of personal superiority and an exaggerated reverence for the sexual act.
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.
I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I saw you - and the only thing I'm ashamed of is that I did not know it. I did not know why, for two yea...
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
To cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions and borrowed time, and to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind’s...