Never ask people about your work.
Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.
It was beautiful and rare, and you have every right to despise me.She stood pressed to the wall, not moving.When you came in, I thought 'Send her away.' But I knew that if you went away, I'd run after...
It is a sin to write this.
If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fact and it has cost you nothing. But if you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her t...
If some men do not choose to think, but survive by imitating and repeating, like trained animals, the routine of sounds and motions they learned from others, never making an effort to understand their...
If life is a process of self-sustaining action, then this is the distinctly human mode of action and survival: to think--to produce--to meet the challenges of existence by a never-ending effort and in...
I think the man who designed this should have committed suicide. A man who can conceive a thing as beautiful as this should never allowed it to be erected. He should not want to exist. But he will let...
I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom. . .To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.
I am. I think. I will.
He never felt lonliness except when he was happy.
For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we proud of this thread of metal, or of our hands which made it, or is there a line to divide these two?
Failing to have a cake after one has eaten it, is not a compromise.
Every loneliness is a pinnacle
Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched.
But you've never wanted that. You wanted a mirror. People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they're reflecting too. You know, like the senseless infinity you get from two mir...
And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should we all perish in battle. The word which can never di...
Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source the precondition of his p...