22 January 2008

ayn rand helps when i'm feeling bitter or existential....


in this exact order are four of my favourite short ayn rand quotes.... they can be read almost as one sentence although each one is so powerful on it's own....

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

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