Consciousness Quotes by Ayn Rand

22 Consciousness quotes by Ayn Rand

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Ayn Rand’s 22 statements on consciousness cut straight to the core of self‑reliance. Expect a sharp focus on rational agency and the power of the mind to shape destiny, all filtered through her unmistakable philosophical lens.

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The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness; the liberals, his body.

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Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

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Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which…

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Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking…

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Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact…

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The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

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Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true…

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When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness -…

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One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or “prove”) existence as such, or consciousness as such.…

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She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense…

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Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will…

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Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies…

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Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was…

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She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him.…

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Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He…

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Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no…

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There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of…

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The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to…

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“If nothing exists, there can be no consciousness, a consciousness with nothing to be conscious of is a contradiction in terms. A…

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

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Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is…

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That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom…

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There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

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She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment…

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“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”

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

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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…

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“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent…

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This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.

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“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as…

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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…

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“We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”

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“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To…

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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…

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Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most…

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Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…

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We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

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