Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom… — 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
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
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
What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.… — 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
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
“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
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
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
It was beautiful and rare, and you have every right to despise me." She stood pressed to the wall, not moving. "When… — 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
The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We [entrepreneurs] required that you leave us free to function -- free to think and work as we choose ... -- free… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If it were, one would… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do not make the mistake...of thinking that a worker is a slave and that he holds his job by his employer's permission.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on… — 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
Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I… — 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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