Sometimes Pain Is Easier To Bear Alone

... There Is An Irrational, Cultish Tendency In Many Intellectual Movements, And Objectivism, Alas, Is No Exception. Ayn Rand's Personal Obsession With Loyalty Did Little To Discourage This Trend.... Rand Had Often Protested, 'protect Me From My Followers!'

The Real Basic Power Of An Individual Isn't What He Or She Knows; It's The Ability To Think And Learn And Face New Challenges.

Reason And Emotion Are Not Antagonists. What Seems Like A Struggle Between Two Opposing Ideas Or Values, One Of Which, Automatic And Unconscious, Manifests Itself In The Form Of A Feeling.

One Of The Hardest Expressions Of Self-assertiveness Is Challenging Your Limiting Beliefs.

Force, Governmental Coercion, Is The Instrument By Which The Ethics Of Altruism - The Belief That The Individual Exists To Serve Others - Is Translated Into Political Reality.