Religion Quotes by Ayn Rand

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.

— Ayn Rand

I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions.

— Ayn Rand

I don’t approve of religion.

— Ayn Rand

A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.

— Ayn Rand

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

— Ayn Rand

The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

— Ayn Rand

To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.

— Ayn Rand

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

— Ayn Rand

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

— Ayn Rand

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act…

— Ayn Rand

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no…

— Ayn Rand

Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this…

— Ayn Rand

I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the…

— Ayn Rand

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to…

— Ayn Rand

In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit…

— Ayn Rand

“If his judgment is to be an object of sacrifice — what sort of efficacy, control, freedom from conflict, or serenity of…

— Ayn Rand

“From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have…

— Ayn Rand

“In spiritual issues--(by "spiritual" I mean: "pertaining to man's consciousness")--a trader is a man who does not seek to be loved for…

— Ayn Rand

For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging…

— Ayn Rand

When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness -…

— Ayn Rand

Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are…

— Ayn Rand

“It was a long story and the spirt which moved it was the spirit of man's freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom…

— Ayn Rand

“The human spirit. The heroic in man. The aspiration and the fulfillment, both. Uplifted in its quest--and uplifting by its own essence.…

— Ayn Rand

“This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of things. I am…

— Ayn Rand

If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an…

— Ayn Rand

“I am. I think. I will. My hands. . . My spirit . . . My sky . . . This earth…

— Ayn Rand

“Howard Roark built a temple to the human spirit. He saw man as strong, proud, clean, wise and fearless. He saw man…

— Ayn Rand

I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of…

— Ayn Rand

“What I was referring to was not religion as such, but a special category of abstractions, the most exalted one, which, for…

— Ayn Rand

“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the…

— Ayn Rand

“And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the…

— Ayn Rand

“I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and…

— Ayn Rand

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential,…

— Ayn Rand

The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the…

— Ayn Rand

I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am…

— Ayn Rand

“Just as religion has preempted the field of ethics, turning morality against man, so it has usurped the highest moral concepts of…

— Ayn Rand

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

— Ayn Rand

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have…

— Ayn Rand

Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.

— Ayn Rand

If a man wants love he should correct his weaknesses, or his flaws, and he may deserve it. But he cannot expect…

— Ayn Rand