"That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character." -Atlas Shrugged, Part III. A is A, Chapter VII "This is John Galt Speaking,"

...or a little place the Eagle-Priest named GSS-057 ("Galt Sub-Station 057 of 296 of Galt's magnificent monologue, the ultimate meta-ethical travelogue---the Bhagavad Gita of our chosen and rationally-validated revolution. Atlas Shrugged was and is America's Second and Final Declaration of Independence.

Now how, after that mad rant to the glory of Galt are you going to sit there and tell me soul isn't real. Not necessarily rational perhaps, but seriously can you really be so dishonest as to negate or renounce your own existence?

Objectivism neither reifies nor negates the measurements or attributes of entities (which necessarily possess identity, A is A).

You do not smash every "cart" for the guilt of those who got ahead of their "horses." Not if you're honest. A mystic shoots his horse in the head to set his cart free and it sits in the dessert of the Nile static and stagnating.

The Tour [an excerpt]

Have you met John Galt? He is the man without pain or fear or guilt, because he is the man who is sure of his convictions. Sure enough to see that society is perishing from an orgy of unreason, and to set about changing the world. When you meet him in the pages of the classic best seller Atlas Shrugged, you may ask yourself: "Could anybody in real life be that sure of his convictions?" [...}

-James Sedgwick