Ocupation: Novelist
Life: February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982
Birthday: February 2
Death: March 6
Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.
- Ayn Rand
topic: Offering, People, Goal, Uninspiring