Did I feel a physical desire for him? I did. Was I moved by a passion of my body? I was. Have I experienced the most violent form of sensual pleasure? I have.

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To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.

Ayn Rand

Mots clés life truth love spiritual

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We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

Ayn Rand

Mots clés philosophy objectivism

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Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.

Ayn Rand

Mots clés ethics philosophy epistomology

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We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever.

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But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

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Я не делал никакой оценки этой собственности. Я предоставил это горному инженеру. Он не очень хороший специалист, но ему очень нужна была работа. Разве не общепринято, что когда нанимаешь человека на работу, то прежде всего нужно принимать во внимание его потребности, а не то, какой он специалист?

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Man is an end in himself.

Ayn Rand

Mots clés life success philosophy individualism objectivism

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The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.

Ayn Rand

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The world is ours, whenever we choose to claim it, by virtue and grace of the fact that ours is the Morality of Life.

Ayn Rand

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