Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Through the years the thought of suicide had occurred to him, not as an intention, but as one of the many possibilities… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I swearby my life and my love of itthat I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another… — 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
“The purpose of philosophy is not to help men find a meaning in life, but to prove to them that there isn't… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to you and to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens… — 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
“Every achievement of man is a value in itself, but it is also a stepping-stone to greater achievements and values. Life is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a lifelong process - and the higher… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“He's paying the price and wondering for what sin and telling himself that he's been too selfish. In what act or thought… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Architecture is not a business, not a career, but a crusade and a consecration to a joy that justifies the existence of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Philosophy studies the fundamental nature of existence, of man, and of man’s relationship to existence.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“He has once built his fortune, starting out with empty hands; now he had to rebuild his life, starting out with an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me? — 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
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live. — 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
Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I had to originate a philosophical framework of my own, because my basic view of man and existence was theories. In order… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part… — 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
