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"
Thinking
is
man
’
s
only
basic
virtue
,
from
which
all
the
others
proceed
.
And
his
basic
vice
,
the
source
of
all
his
evils
,
is
that
nameless
act
which
all
of
you
practice
,
but
struggle
never
to
admit
:
the
act
of
blanking
out
,
the
willful
suspension
of
one
’
s
consciousness
,
the
refusal
to
think
—
not
blindness
,
but
the
refusal
to
see
;
not
ignorance
,
but
the
refusal
to
know
.
It
is
the
act
of
unfocusing
your
mind
and
inducing
an
inner
fog
to
escape
the
responsibility
of
judgment
—
on
the
unstated
premise
that
a
thing
will
not
exist
if
only
you
refuse
to
identify
it
,
that
A
will
not
be
A
so
long
as
you
do
not
pronounce
the
verdict
‘
It
is
.
’
Non
-
thinking
is
an
act
of
annihilation
,
a
wish
to
negate
existence
,
an
attempt
to
wipe
out
reality
.
But
existence
exists
;
reality
is
not
to
be
wiped
out
,
it
will
merely
wipe
out
the
wiper
.
By
refusing
to
say
‘
It
is
,
’
you
are
refusing
to
say
‘
I
am
.
’
By
suspending
your
judgment
,
you
are
negating
your
person
.
When
a
man
declares
:
‘
Who
am
I
to
know
?
’
—
he
is
declaring
:
‘
Who
am
I
to
live
?
’
"
This
,
in
every
hour
and
every
issue
,
is
your
basic
moral
choice
:
thinking
or
non
-
thinking
,
existence
or
non
-
existence
,
A
or
non
-
A
,
entity
or
zero
.
"
To
the
extent
to
which
a
man
is
rational
,
life
is
the
premise
directing
his
actions
.
To
the
extent
to
which
he
is
irrational
,
the
premise
directing
his
actions
is
death
.
"
You
who
prattle
that
morality
is
social
and
that
man
would
need
no
morality
on
a
desert
island
—
it
is
on
a
desert
island
that
he
would
need
it
most
.
Let
him
try
to
claim
,
when
there
are
no
victims
to
pay
for
it
,
that
a
rock
is
a
house
,
that
sand
is
clothing
,
that
food
will
drop
into
his
mouth
without
cause
or
effort
,
that
he
will
collect
a
harvest
tomorrow
by
devouring
his
stock
seed
today
—
and
reality
will
wipe
him
out
,
as
he
deserves
;
reality
will
show
him
that
life
is
a
value
to
be
bought
and
that
thinking
is
the
only
coin
noble
enough
to
buy
it
.
"
If
I
were
to
speak
your
kind
of
language
,
I
would
say
that
man
’
s
only
moral
commandment
is
:
Thou
shall
think
.
But
a
‘
moral
commandment
’
is
a
contradiction
in
terms
.
The
moral
is
the
chosen
,
not
the
forced
;
the
understood
,
not
the
obeyed
.
The
moral
is
the
rational
,
and
reason
accepts
no
commandments
.
"
My
morality
,
the
morality
of
reason
,
is
contained
in
a
single
axiom
:
existence
exists
—
and
in
a
single
choice
:
to
live
.
The
rest
proceeds
from
these
.
To
live
,
man
must
hold
three
things
as
the
supreme
and
ruling
values
of
his
life
:
Reason
—
Purpose
—
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
.
"
Rationality
is
the
recognition
of
the
fact
that
existence
exists
,
that
nothing
can
alter
the
truth
and
nothing
can
take
precedence
over
that
act
of
perceiving
it
,
which
is
thinking
—
that
the
mind
is
one
’
s
only
judge
of
values
and
one
’
s
only
guide
of
action
—
that
reason
is
an
absolute
that
permits
no
compromise
—
that
a
concession
to
the
irrational
invalidates
one
’
s
consciousness
and
turns
it
from
the
task
of
perceiving
to
the
task
of
faking
reality
—
that
the
alleged
short
-
cut
to
knowledge
,
which
is
faith
,
is
only
a
short
-
circuit
destroying
the
mind
—
that
the
acceptance
of
a
mystical
invention
is
a
wish
for
the
annihilation
of
existence
and
,
properly
,
annihilates
one
’
s
consciousness
.
"
Independence
is
the
recognition
of
the
fact
that
yours
is
the
responsibility
of
judgment
and
nothing
can
help
you
escape
it
—
that
no
substitute
can
do
your
thinking
,
as
no
pinch
-
hitter
can
live
your
life
—
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
acceptance
of
his
assertions
as
facts
,
his
say
-
so
as
truth
,
his
edicts
as
middle
-
man
between
your
consciousness
and
your
existence
.
