“Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.”
― The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
― The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
“The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.”
― The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
― The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
“To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed value. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone”
― The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
― The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
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