Mind Quotes by Ayn Rand

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

— Ayn Rand

“To place nothing—nothing—above the verdict of my own mind.”

— Ayn Rand

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

— Ayn Rand

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.

— Ayn Rand

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

— Ayn Rand

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

— Ayn Rand

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

— Ayn Rand

A free mind and a free market are corollaries.

— Ayn Rand

The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning…

— Ayn Rand

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals…

— Ayn Rand

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

— Ayn Rand

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

— Ayn Rand

If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind.

— Ayn Rand

The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind

— Ayn Rand

He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss…

— Ayn Rand

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

— Ayn Rand

John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men…

— Ayn Rand

A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls;…

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“Keating leaned back with a sense of warmth and well-being. He liked this book. It had made the routine of his Sunday…

— Ayn Rand

“From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have…

— Ayn Rand

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom…

— Ayn Rand

Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're…

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“Feeling quiet and empty, he told himself that he would be all right tomorrow. He would forgive himself the weakness of this…

— Ayn Rand

There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the…

— Ayn Rand

“People turned to look at Howard Roark as he passed. Some remained staring after him with sudden resentment. They could give no…

— Ayn Rand

“He watched the pain's unsummoned appearance with a cold, detached curiosity; he said to himself: Well, here it is again. He waited…

— Ayn Rand

The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior…

— Ayn Rand

I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder…

— Ayn Rand

There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of…

— Ayn Rand

Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your…

— Ayn Rand

In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that…

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Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such…

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“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils,…

— Ayn Rand

“He saw an evening when he sat slumped across his desk in that office. It was late and his staff had left;…

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“The audience looked at him. They felt he had no chance. They could drop the nameless resentment, the sense of insecurity which…

— Ayn Rand

“He thought of how convincingly he could describe this scene to friends and make them envy the fullness of his contentment. Why…

— Ayn Rand

I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love…

— Ayn Rand

“The young photographer glanced at Roark's face--and thought of something that had puzzled him for a long time: he had always wondered…

— Ayn Rand

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of…

— Ayn Rand

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

— Ayn Rand