Devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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.
But there are people who’ll try to hurt you through the good they see in you – knowing that it’s the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don’t let it break you when you discover that.
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves – or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
