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Nature Quotes by Ayn Rand

96 Nature quotes by Ayn Rand

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A battleground of a corpse and a ghost shows how nature can feel like a clash of opposites. The quotes also treat nature as indifferent, saying nothing makes sense and that we cannot escape our own nature. They stress that the individual is a tiny minority whose rights matter.

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“the only sin on earth was to do things badly.”

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It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth.

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Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.

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“Nature is not to be conquered, man is.”

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“To me-the foulest man on earth, more contemptible than a criminal, is the man who rejects men for being too good.”

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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

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The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

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The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory.…

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“We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose…

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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

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She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I…

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Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

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“In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort. But you are not…

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Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of…

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Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and…

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Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or…

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“The strip of earthy, faintly visible outside the window, was running faster now, blending into a gray stream. Through the dry phrases…

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“We do not know why we think of them. We do not know why, when we think of them, we feel of…

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“It was a day in March, and the sky was a faint green with the first hint of spring. In Central Park,…

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Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto…

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“The new “theory of justice” demands that men counteract the “injustice” of nature by instituting the most obscenely unthinkable injustice among men:…

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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East…

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“And now we look upon the earth and sky. This spread of naked rock and peaks and moonlight is like a world…

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But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to…

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Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by…

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Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know…

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“The source of man's rights is not divine law or a congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A ___…

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“I shall remind you that"rights" are a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man's freedom of action in a social context, that…

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“It's interesting to speculate on the reasons that make men so anxious to debase themselves. As in that idea of feeling small…

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“Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of…

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“Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him,…

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“What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call his Original Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he…

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“Then she understood that what she needed was the motion to a purpose, no matter how small or in what form, the…

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“If this is vise I want no virtue. ... I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness…

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“Sometimes after dinner, he would walk into the woods that began behind the house. He would stretch down on the ground on…

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“Observe the nature of today’s alleged peace movements. Professing love and concern for the survival of mankind, they keep screaming that the…

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“Man's mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth.”

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“So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another—their only substitute, if they abandon money,…

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Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the…

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“The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them (pg. 52).”

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There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment…

“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”

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“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent…

This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.

“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as…

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…

“We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”

“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To…

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long…

Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most…

Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…

We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.