"It is true that nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving truth ,it which is thinking that the mind is one's only judge of values and one's only guide of actions 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 shortcut to knowledge which his 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 violest 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"

-john galt