Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand

"To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense."
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"To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense."
Ayn Rand
"My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose."
Ayn Rand
"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."
Ayn Rand
"The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies."
Ayn Rand
"Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself anything goes."
Ayn Rand
"The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach."
Ayn Rand
"We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days."
Ayn Rand
"Charity must be voluntary."
Ayn Rand
"Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want."
Ayn Rand
"Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness."
Ayn Rand
"“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”"
Ayn Rand The Fountainhead
"People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all."
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
"Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking."
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
"I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle."
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
Ayn Rand
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours."
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
"Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone."
Ayn Rand
"It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision."
Ayn Rand
"I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother."
Ayn Rand
"He tried to explain and to convince. He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words sounded as if they were hitting a vacuum. There was no such person as Mrs. Wayne Wilmot; there was only a shell containing the opinions of her friends, the picture postcards she had seen, the novels of country squires she had read; it was this that he had to address, this immateriality which could not hear him or answer, deaf and impersonal like a wad of cotton."
Ayn Rand
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