He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Man's mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth. — 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
Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned. — 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
Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“You who won’t allow one per cent of impurity into an alloy of metal,” the unforgotten voice was saying to him, “what… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Life is achievement…Give yourself an aim, something you want to do, then go after it, breaking through everything, with nothing in mind… — 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
The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
They had rejected the soul-body dichotomy, with its two corollaries: the impotence of man's mind and the damnation of this earth; they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only… — 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
Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Since early childhood, their emotions have been conditioned by the tribal premise that one must “belong,” one must be “in,” one must… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If some men do not choose to think, but survive by imitating and repeating, like trained animals, the routine of sounds and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. The mind is an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“This is the strike of the men of the mind, Miss Taggart. This is the mind on strike.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Your mind is your only judge of truth--and if others dissent your verdict, reality is the final court of appeal. John Galt” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose… — 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
