self-made wealth,
so he is a being of
self-made soul.
Just as our physical survival
depends
on our own effort,
so does our psychological survival.
We face two
corollary,
interdependent
fields of action
in which
a constant
exercise of choice
and
a constant
creative process
are demanded of us:
the world around us
and
our own soul
by “soul,” I mean our consciousness.
Just as we have to
produce the material values
we need
to sustain
our life,
so we must
acquire the values of character
that enable us
to sustain it
and that make
our life
worth living.
We are born without the knowledge of either.
We must discover both
and translate them into reality
and survive by shaping the world and ourselves in the image of our values.
and translate them into reality
and survive by shaping the world and ourselves in the image of our values.
We have only two
sources of information
about the character
of the people around us:
we may judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).
sources of information
about the character
of the people around us:
we may judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).
Galt's Speech : For the New Intellectual
