The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind. Man has to be man — by choice; he has to hold his life as a value — by choice; he has to learn to sustain it — by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues — by choice.
A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the total sum of his knowledge. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. All the secret evil you dread to face within you and all the pain you have ever endured, came from your own attempt to evade the fact that A is A.
The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. Why is it immoral for your to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away?
I will stop the motor of the world. An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality. The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.
As there can be no causeless wealth, so there can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for your happiness, and when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to live like a man.
Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man. Every day we present the best quotes!
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Men , Thinking , Survival. To remain alive, he must think. Men Thinking Survival. Evil Mind Degrees. Self Feet Principles. I do not place my moral sanction upon a murderer's wish to kill me.
When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him-by force. Men Thinking Wish. Men Survival Mind. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects.
The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity. Character Scotch Race. Men London Creatures. Mystery Policy. Mean Men Gains. Your mind is your only judge of truth—and if othe.
A face that bore no mark of pain or fear or guilt The shape of his mouth was pride, and more: it was as if he took pride in being proud. The angular planes of his cheeks made her think of arrogance, of tension, of scorn—yet the face had none of these qualities, it had their final.
There is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires—if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical? There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another—if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value.
She felt an odd, light-hearted indifference, as if she suddenly wanted nothing but the comfort of surrendering to helplessness. If any part of your uncertainty is a conflict between your heart and your mind—follow your mind. Trending Quotes. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because r I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
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