“Do not expect consistency. Everything is a contradiction of everything else. Nothing exists but contradictions.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind… — 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
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
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
The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an insolent contradiction in terms: that which is outside the possibility of… — 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 Image
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 Image
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 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 a long… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
