“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Eye-rolling is not exactly the pinnacle of socratic investigation.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“In meetings philosophy might work, on the field practicality works.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“No gift is worth a damn, unless its the most precious thing you've got.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“You want to know what's wrong with the world?" Dad paused. "It's this alienation that permeates every aspect of humanity.” — Mark David Henderson Copy Share Image
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master. — 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
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“You do not need commandments to tell you what is right and wrong, you need reason. YOU NEED TO THINK. What are… — Kassandra Dick Copy Share Image
There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think it's very important to distinguish between objectivity - which tends to be open, flexible, skeptical of its own certainty and… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: “I swear by my life and my love… — John Galt Copy Share Image
... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“I mean the one that claims the pig is the symbol of love for humanity--the creature that accepts anything. As a matter… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The justification of capitalism is not that the economy grows faster than it grows under any other system ... not that the… — M. Northrup Buechner 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
In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world -… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
Objectivism advocates reason as man's sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
“No! I don't want to speak of that! But I'm going to. I want you to hear. I want you to know… — 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
“In neo-classical economic theory, it is claimed without evidence that people are basically self-seeking, that they want above all the satisfaction of… — Carne Ross Copy Share Image
“Art is a concretization of metaphysics. Art brings man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp… — Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto 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
“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
A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing… — Don Cupitt Copy Share Image
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
![“To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason. 2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right. 3. Charity is immoral. 4. Pay for your own fucking schools.” quote by Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/454/matt-taibbi-2257_ayn-rand_to-sum-it-all-up-the-ayn-rand-belief-sys_734389.jpg)
![“I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” quote by John Galt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/28e/john-galt-18783_another-man_i-want-every-fan-of-rand-to-hear-polaha_1518804.jpg)
![“A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. People [forget] ... how utterly hateful the old…” quote by Don Cupitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/94d/don-cupitt-31574_arrogance_a-god-out-there-and-values-out-there-if_1022705.jpg)
