Quote #177

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

More from Ayn Rand

  1. Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
  2. To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
  3. Thought does not bow to authority.
  4. To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.
  5. Thinking men cannot be ruled.
  6. To fear to face an issue is to believe the worst is true.
  7. They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to re…
  8. To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

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