“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
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
“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
“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
“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
To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil. — Gore Vidal 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
“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
“No gift is worth a damn, unless its the most precious thing you've got.” — 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
“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 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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