The Virtue of Selfishness Quotes The man who does not value - TopicsExpress



          

The Virtue of Selfishness Quotes The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone. Ayn Rand Tags: self-esteem like Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others. Ayn Rand Tags: objectivism, reason, responsibility like In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them. Ayn Rand like The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance ones own antagonists. Ayn Rand like Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history. Ayn Rand like Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their loved ones or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge. Ayn Rand Tags: addiction, ethics, moral like To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed value. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone Ayn Rand like In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth. Ayn Rand like There can be no compromise on moral principles. Ayn Rand like Faith is the commitment of ones consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as his standard of judgement, only one alternative standard remains to him: his feelings. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feelings with knowledge Nathaniel Branden like There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil. Ayn Rand like 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 not is the choice of life or death. Ayn Rand like The necessary consequence of mans right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. All the reasons which make the initiation of physical force an evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. If some pacifist society renounced the retaliatory use of force, it would be left helplessly at the mercy of the first thug who decided to be immoral. Such a society would achieve the opposite of its intention: instead of abolishing evil, it would encourage and reward it. Ayn Rand like Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a mans freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men. Ayn Rand like The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values. Ayn Rand
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:17:26 +0000

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