“Every man builds his world in his own image,” he said. “He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice. (Location 18665)
supreme and ruling values of his life: Reason—Purpose—Self-esteem. (Location 23980)
all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride. (Location 23982)
that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the (Location 23990)
“Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, (Location 23993)
whenever you chose to say: Let me withdraw from the judgment of reason the cookies I stole, or the existence of God, let me have my one irrational whim and I will be a man of reason about all else—that was the act of subverting your consciousness, the act of corrupting your mind. (Location 24407)
we who perform the process of thinking, which is the process of defining identity and discovering causal connections. (Location 24431)
