A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is… — 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
The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness… — 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
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by… — 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
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring… — 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
