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There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: reason, purpose, and self-esteem. reason, as his only tool of knowledge--purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve--self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. these three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride.
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There Must Be Only Three Supreme Values

Ayn Rand
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: reason, purpose, and self-esteem. reason, as his only tool of knowledge--purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve--self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. these three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride.
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