Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable?” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A thing is not high if one can reach it; it is not great if one can reason it; it is not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are… — 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
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He… — 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
Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We cannot fight against collectivism, unless we fight against its moral base: altruism. We cannot fight against altruism, unless we fight against… — 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
The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. — 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
An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A Conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it" - but an Individualist is NOT a man who… — 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
It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No advocate of reason can claim the right to force his ideas on others. No advocate of the free mind can claim… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important - what… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say 'capitalism,'… — 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
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
