Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. "Things as they are" are things as perceived by your mind; divorce them from reason and they become "things as perceived by your wishes.

Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others.

Her face lay still on the air under his face.

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time. The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all of their brains. Such is the nature of the 'competition' between the strong and the weak of the intellect. Such is the pattern of 'exploitation' for which you have damned the strong.

My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.