I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The purpose of philosophy is not to help men find a meaning in life, but to prove to them that there isn't… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“As a human being, you have no choice about the fact that you need a philosophy. Your only choice is whether you… — ayn rand Copy Share Image
“Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Your moral code begins by damning man as evil, then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The source of man's rights is not divine law or a congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A ___… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Through all the years that I spent formulating my philosophical system, I was looking desperately for “intelligent agreement” or at least for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“But of all the deadly theories by means of which you are now being destroyed, I would like to warn you about… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“philosopher has given a rational, objectively demonstrable, scientific answer to the question of why man needs a code of values. So long… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There are no 'rights' of special groups, there are no 'rights of farmers, of workers, of businessmen, of employees, of employers, of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy — an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality — many of its… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“But, in fact, a person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The philosophers of the past were superficial,” Dr. Pritchett went on. “It remained for our century to redefine the purpose of philosophy.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It is often asked: Why was capitalism destroyed in spite of its incomparably beneficent record? The answer lies in the fact that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without… — 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 person's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What subjectivism is in the realm of ethics, collectivism is in the realm of politics. Just as the notion that "anything I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The concept of individual rights is so new in human history that most men have not grasped it fully to this day.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The style of a soul. Do you remember the famous philosopher who spoke of the style of a civilization? He called it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The secret of the Witch Doctor’s power lies in the fact that man needs an integrated view of life, a philosophy, whether… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What I was referring to was not religion as such, but a special category of abstractions, the most exalted one, which, for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. They did… — 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
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
