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Fountainhead
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Those who seek some sort of a higher purpose or ’universal goal,’ who don’t know what to live for, who moan that they must ’find themselves.’ You hear it all around us. That seems to be the official bromide of our century. Every book you
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“He stays a witness to life, so he endures. Serve the needs of others, and all your own needs will be fulfilled. Through selfless action, fulfillment is attained.”
― Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao
― Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao
“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Dune
― Dune
“So after centuries of being pounded with the doctrine that altruism is the ultimate ideal, men have accepted it in the only way it could be accepted. By seeking self-esteem through others. By living second-hand. And it has opened the way for every kind of horror. It has become the dreadful form of selfishness which a truly selfish man couldn’t have conceived. And now, to cure a world perishing from selflessness, we’re asked to destroy the self.”
― Fountainhead
― Fountainhead
“The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“Nothing was, nothing will be; everything is, everything has existence and is present.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
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