Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the
gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality
-- not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless
use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance
of reason as an absolute.
-- John Galt
only to the extent which -- in chains, in dungeo in hidden
corners, in the cells of philosophers, in the shops of traders --
some men continued to think, only to that extent was humanity able
to survive ....
Whoever you are -- you who are alone with my words in this mome
with nothing but your honesty to help you understand -- the choice
is still open to be a human being, but the price is to start from
scratch, to stand naked in the face of reality, and, reversing a
costly historical error, to declare...