I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows.

I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of life are not merely mistaken, but evil, and yet, from a purely literary viewpoint, on his own terms, I have to evaluate him as a good writer.

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

you are never called upon to prove a negative. that's a law of logic.

Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality.

Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it.