But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I will not die, it's the world that will end." paraphrase of unknown philosopher — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A political battle is merely a skirmish fought with muskets; a philosophical battle is a nuclear war.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“To irrational principles, one cannot be loyal. Ideas that are not derived from reality cannot be consistently practiced in reality. --as quoted… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I had to originate a philosophical framework of my own, because my basic view of man and existence was theories. In order… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Just as religion has preempted the field of ethics, turning morality against man, so it has usurped the highest moral concepts of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The Objectivist ethics, in essence, hold that man exists for his own sake, that the pursuit of his own happiness is his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Dagny, there’s nothing of any importance in life—except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Jim,” she said once, after an evening spent among the men who were called the intellectual leaders of the country, “Dr. Simon… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In what act or thought of his has there ever been self? What was his aim in life? Greatness - in other… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a man's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, [the] attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Philosophy studies the fundamental nature of existence, of man, and of man’s relationship to existence.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand Copy Share
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before. — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
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… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share
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