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"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end."
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"We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?"
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"Any religion which demands death for other people is itself worthy of nothing less than it expects for others. In fact, it is probably long overdue."
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"And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt."
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"Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right."
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"What need of prompt or hint when it is open to yourself to discern what needs to be done - and, if you can see your way, to follow it with kind but undeviating intent. If you cannot see the way, hold back and consult your best advisors. if some other factors obstruct this advice, proceed on your present resources, but with cautious deliberations, keeping always to what seems just. Justice is the best aim, as any failure is in fact a failure of justice.A man following reason in all things combines relaxation with initiative, spark with composure."
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"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."
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"Angling is a sport, so sporting ethics should apply."
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"He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing."
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"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."
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"It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."
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"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."
Ethics
"The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him."
Desire
"An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty."
Morality
"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."
Faith
"We must admit thatlaw must be valid, not merely for men, but for all rational creatures generally, not merely under certain contingent conditions or with exceptions, but with absolute necessity."
Law
"Philosophical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from concepts mathematical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from the construction of concepts."
Knowledge
"Anarchy is law and freedom without force.Despotism is law and force without freedom.Barbarism force without freedom and law.Republicanism is force with freedom and law."
Governance
"In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion."
Beauty
"The sight of a being who is not adorned with a single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity, can never give pleasure to an impartial rational spectator. Thus a good will appears to constitute the indispensable condition even of being worthy of happiness."
Morality
"Physicsis the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws."
Science
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