To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The human spirit. The heroic in man. The aspiration and the fulfillment, both. Uplifted in its quest--and uplifting by its own essence.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“But if my love of truth is left as my only possession, then the greater the loss behind me, the greater the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I want to see, real, living, and in the hours of my own days, that glory I create as an illusion. I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“... he had always wondered why the sensations one felt in dreamas were so much more intense than anything one could experience… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The young photographer glanced at Roark's face--and thought of something that had puzzled him for a long time: he had always wondered… — 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
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Miss Taggart, do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest… — 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
