Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting, and we're pushed into it by one single desire. You want a thing and it's precious...
Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.
Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched. The things which are sacred or precious to us are the things we withdraw from promiscuous shar...
Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched.
And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men.
A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated
Yes! And isn't that the root of every despicable action? 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 hi...
Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken, tr...
When man discovered how to make fire to keep himself warm, his need of thought and effort was not ended; when he discovered how to fashion a bow and arrow, his need of thought and effort was not ended...
We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.
Volumes can be and have been written aboutthe issue of freedom versus dictatorship,but, in essence, it comes down to a single question:
This is pity, he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.
There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we...
There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men (pg. 101).
There is no necessity for pain-why, then, is the worst pain reserved for those who will not accept its necessity?
There can be no compromise on moral principles.
There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.
There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.