“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.”
― The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
― The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”
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“Men are so constituted that they derive their conviction of their own possibilities largely from the estimate formed of them by others. If nothing is expected of a people, that people will find it difficult to contradict that expectation.”
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“Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
Political Philosophy and Ethics
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