Psychology 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

“of metal, if one combined a truss with an arch, if one built diagonal”

— Ayn Rand

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.

— Ayn Rand

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

— 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

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

“Love is the ultimate form of recognition one grants to superlative values.”

— 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

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

— Ayn Rand

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

When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means…

— Ayn Rand

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

“For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we…

— 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;…

— Ayn Rand

“He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Ayn Rand

“He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens…

— Ayn Rand

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

— Ayn Rand

You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life.…

— Ayn Rand

“Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them.…

— 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;…

— Ayn Rand

A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless…

— Ayn Rand

“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

“Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by…

— Ayn Rand

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

— Ayn Rand

“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

“Do not say that you're afraid to trust your mind because you know so little. Are you safer in surrendering to mystics…

— Ayn Rand

“That special pleasure she had felt in watching him eat the food she had prepared—she thought, lying still, her eyes closed, her…

— Ayn Rand

“It is not any crime you have committed that infects your soul with permanent guilt, it is none of your failures, errors…

— Ayn Rand

“Your subconscious is like a computer—more complex a computer than men can build—and its main function is the integration of your ideas.…

— Ayn Rand