Illiani

(23:13:22) Summer: When you are brushing your teeth, you are operating under the Constitution. When you are applying Objectivism, you are operating within Objectivism to the point that, until you contradict Objectivism, you are an Objectivist.

So, me & my partner of some 3 years have split up.

"Just as an idea unexpressed in physical action is contemptible hypocrisy, so is platonic love—and just as physical action unguided by an idea is a fool’s self-fraud, so is sex when cut off from one’s code of values . . . . Only the man who extols the purity of a love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love."

"...there's nothing of any importance in life--except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value. All the codes of ethics they'll try to ram down your throat are just so much paper money put out by swindlers to fleece people of their virtues. The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard."

"A chain," she said. "Appropriate, isn't it? It's the chain by which he holds us all in bondage."

Just reached Roark's trial. Decided to test myself by seeing how long I could go without reading the end to Fountainhead.

"This is pity, he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue."

Trying to understand why some people feel restrained to the opinions & criticisms of others.

"That's the meaning of life...The material the earth offers you and what you make of it" - Currently analysing this concept.