Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the total sum of his knowledge. To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality
タグ: wisdom, virtue, values, truth, thinking, think, reason, reality, rational, pursuit-of-happiness, philosophy, objectivism, morals, morality, mind, man, logic, life, john-galt, contradiction, atlas-shrugged

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Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
タグ: think, reality, man, work
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
タグ: talent, men, money, you
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
タグ: sanction, requires, victim, evil
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
タグ: think, evil, money, you
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
タグ: doing, know, power, you
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