Best Ayn Rand Thoughts
- The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral. Creed
- It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together. Ability
- This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel. Beyond
- Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth. Angry
- Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only by the grace… All
- An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good… Act
- Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he has to hold… Accepted
- Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth. Knowledge
- A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease,… Absence
- The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. Evil
- To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true. Believe
- All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal. All
- When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend. Act
- I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy. Absolute
- Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, [the] attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality. Attempt
- Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history. Evil
- What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem. Answer
- What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to… Able
- Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. Capitalism
- Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine. Achievement
- To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started. End
- Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do… Abasement
- The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it… Accept
- The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep… Aspect
- There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them. Afford
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