“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or “prove”) existence as such, or consciousness as such.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He… — 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
Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whether it’s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is only one institution that can arrogate to itself the power legally to trade by means of rubber checks: the government.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means… — 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
The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story. — 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
