214 quotes found
“Reason is your means of survival so that for you, who are a human being, the question to be or not to be is the question 'to think or not to think..'.”
“It does take an exceptional mind and a still more exceptional integrity to remain untouched by the brain-destroying influences of the worlds doctrines, the accumulated evil of centuriesto remain hu...”
“Through all the ages the mind has been regarded as evil, and every form of insult: from heretic to materialist to exploiterevery form of iniquity: from exile to disfranchisement to expropriationeve...”
“Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it. Is this the reason why you call it evil?”
“The source of work? Mans mind...mans reasoning mind.”
“Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.”
“He did not know that he was expected to attempt to buy his way into society and that they anticipated the pleasure of rejecting him. He had no time to notice their disappointment.”
“...there can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons for his own murderers.”
“...they want us to pretend that we see the world as they pretend they see it. They need some sort of sanction from us.”
“If thats the price of getting together, then Ill be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish ...”
“Such was the code that the world had accepted and such was the key to the code: that it hooked mans love of existence to a circuit of torture, so that only the man who had nothing to offer would ha...”
“Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding ...”
“Seor d.Anconia, what do you think is going to happen to the world?Just exactly what it deserves.Oh, how cruel!Dont you believe in the operation of the moral law, madame? Francisco asked gravely. I do.”
“There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of anotherif men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned...”
“It seemed natural; natural to the moments peculiar reality that was sharply clear, but cut off from everything, immediate, but disconnected, like a bright island in a wall of fog, the heightened, u...”
“It was as if a volcano were cracking open, yet the people at the foot of the mountain ignored the sudden fissures, the black fumes, the boiling trickles, and went on believing that their only dange...”
“Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself.”
“We are those who do not disconnect the values of their minds from the actions of their bodies, those who do not leave their values to empty dreams, but bring them into existence, those who give mat...”
“The man who is convinced of his own worthlessness will be drawn to a woman he despisesbecause she will reflect his own secret self, she will release him from that objective reality in which he is a...”
“Observe the ugly mess which most men make of their sex livesand observe the mess of contradictions which they hold as their moral philosophy.”
