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A man's spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.

A man’s spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.
– Ayn Rand

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  2. Man has the power to act as his own destroyer-”and that is the way he has acted through most of his history. – Ayn Rand
  3. Thus, every entity, even if it is a defective one, in so far as it is an entity, is good. In so far as it is defective, it is evil. – Augustine of Hippo
  4. If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid. – Rand Miller
  5. Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. – Ayn Rand
  6. Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. – Ayn Rand
  7. ..it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all. – Ayn Rand
  8. For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor. – Ayn Rand
  9. Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification. – Ayn Rand
  10. The ‘ pleasure’ of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness. – Ayn Rand
  11. Our spirit is always in peace but our ego is looking for war, so calm the ego and love the spirit forever. – Debasish Mridha
  12. …there was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence. – Ayn Rand
  13. What will the ego not do? It is the ego that has given rise to all this. And when the ego leaves, there is Liberation. – Dada Bhagwan
  14. You don’t kill your ego. You overcome it by loving other people. And for that you need both ego and super-ego. – Robin Sacredfire
  15. An artist reveals his naked soul in his work – and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it. – Ayn Rand
  16. There are two things we must get rid of early in life: a feeling of personal superiority and an exaggerated reverence for the sexual act. – Ayn Rand
  17. I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him. – Ayn Rand
  18. Ego is the central figure of our personal history, based upon the past and looking into the future. Ego is the deepest dream of the Consciousness. – Frank Wanderer
  19. You are so lost to your higher self that you would resent me for my achievements, rather than celebrate them with me, sexually? – Ayn Rand
  20. Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment. – American Psychiatric Association
  21. Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak. – Ayn Rand
  22. Do not judge to Anyone, Do not let anyone to judge you.But Every person must have little moral and honest to judge themselves. – Mohammed Zaki Ansari
  23. Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel. – PD James
  24. Like any organic entity, a system of consciousness manifests itself through the orderly, differentiated development of a certain unifying reality. – Kitar Nishida
  25. Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess. – Ayn Rand
  26. Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake : he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost. – Ayn Rand
  27. …there can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons for his own murderers. – Ayn Rand
  28. He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it. – Ayn Rand
  29. Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words. – Ayn Rand
  30. To be free, a man must be free from his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else. – Ayn Rand
  31. A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards…in order to appeal to the irrationality, dishonesty or stupidity of others. – Ayn Rand
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  33. I had an enemy – myself. Getting rid of the ego-self, in came the Self. Now, here, there, everywhere is nothing else. Just One Self. – Fakeer Ishavardas
  34. Don’t judge a person by how important he is or how big he is. Judge a person by the strength of his character or size of his heart. – Glad Munaiseche
  35. Judge the spirit of the prophecy before you judge the truth of the word. – Graham Cooke
  36. The human spirit is a magnificent entity. Just when we think we can stand no more, something significant touches our soul… and life goes on. – Peggy Toney Horton
  37. When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you -“ you know your nation is doomed. – Ayn Rand
  38. My real soul…? It’s real only when it’s independent… – Ayn Rand
  39. And, after all, you’ve got to live.--œNot that way,- said Roark. – Ayn Rand
  40. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities. – Ayn Rand

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