Ayn Rand on Self-esteem
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“Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.”
“I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.”
“After centuries of being pounded with the doctrine that altruism is the ultimate ideal, men have accepted it in the only way it could be accepted. By seeking self-esteem through others. By living second-hand. .. It has become the dreadful form of selfishness which a truly selfish man couldn’t have conceived.”