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 d...
We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.
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...
The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.
The leaves had edges of silver that trembled and rippled like a river of green and fire flowing high above us.
The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
Psychologically, the choice to think or not is the choice to focus or not. Existentially, the choice to focus or not is the choice to be conscious or not. Metaphysically, the choice to be conscious or...
My hands . . . My spirit . . . My sky . . . My forest . . . This earth of mine . . .
Moments later, when she saw the look of control returning to his face, she said, Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
Little notes of music trembled in hesitation, and burst, and rolled in quick, fine waves, like the thin, clear ringing of glass. Little notes leaped and exploded and laughed, laughed with a full, unco...
It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.
It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man’s proper stature—and that the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give lif...
I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over...
I understand that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.~Equality 7-2521 (as Prometheus), pg 98
I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is...
I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth....
I don't like the thing that's happening to people, Miss Taggart. I don't know. But I've watched them here for twenty years and I've seen the change. They used to rush through here, and it was wonderfu...
I don't believe it matters to me- that they're going to destroy it. Maybe it hurts so much that I don't even know I'm hurt. But I don't think so. If you want to carry it for my sake, don't carry more...
I do not wish to work in a world that regards me as a slave.