Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues-by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for your happiness, and when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to live like a man.

There can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate dictated by your standards.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

As there can be no causeless wealth, so there can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion.