Are you beginning to see who is John Galt? I am the man who hasearned the thing you did not fight for, the thing you have renounced,betrayed, corrupted, yet were unable fully to destroy and are now hiding asyour guilty secret, spending your life
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Are you beginning to see who is John Galt? I am the man who hasearned the thing you did not fight for, the thing you have renounced,betrayed, corrupted, yet were unable fully to destroy and are now hiding asyour guilty secret, spending your life in apologies to every professionalcannibal, lest it be discovered that somewhere within you, you still long tosay what I am now saying to the hearing of the whole of mankind: I amproud of my own value and of the fact that I wish to live.“This wish—which you share, yet submerge as an evil—is the onlyremnant of the good within you, but it is a wish one must learn to deserve.His own happiness is man’s only moral purpose, but only his own virtue canachieve it. Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward orsacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue—andhappiness is the goal and the reward of life.“Just as your body has two fundamental sensations, pleasure and pain, assigns of its welfare or injury, as a barometer of its basic alternative, life ordeath, so your consciousness has two fundamental emotions, joy andsuffering, in answer to the same alternative. Your emotions are estimates ofthat which furthers your life or threatens it, lightning calculators giving youa sum of your profit or loss. You have no choice about your capacity to feelthat something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good orevil, what will give you joy or pain, what you will love or hate, desire orfear, depends on your standard of value. Emotions are inherent in yournature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity isan empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. Ifyou choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode yourtransmission: and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machinewhich you, the driver, have corrupted.
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