Reality Quotes by Ayn Rand

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

— Ayn Rand

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

— Ayn Rand

Nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatever.

— Ayn Rand

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

— Ayn Rand

An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.

— Ayn Rand

“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”

— Ayn Rand

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

— Ayn Rand

You can avoid reality;but u cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality

— Ayn Rand

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality,…

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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if…

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Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must,…

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In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem;…

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To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means…

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To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind…

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Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is…

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Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications -…

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“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without…

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Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist…

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Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to…

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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

Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to…

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It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and…

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Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no…

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No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only…

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“... he had always wondered why the sensations one felt in dreamas were so much more intense than anything one could experience…

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Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor…

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“Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame…

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People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of…

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You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on…

— Ayn Rand

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

— Ayn Rand

Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.

— Ayn Rand

Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, [the] attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality.

— Ayn Rand

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

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Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

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The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two…

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Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your…

— Ayn Rand

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

But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring…

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The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to…

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Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy — an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality — many of its…

— Ayn Rand