"It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that……" — Ayn Rand
"It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love."
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838 Quotes by Ayn Rand
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You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love…
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The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to…
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I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.
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Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea…
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Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the…
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept…
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Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale…
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Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
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This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch…
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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One…
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Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to…
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of…
— John Berger
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Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that…
— James L. Buckley
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We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political…
— Benjamin Carson
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Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
— Emile M. Cioran
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[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One…
— Ayn Rand
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If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in…
— John O'Donohue
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In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while…
— Tertullian
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The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from…
— Pope Pius XII
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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses…
— Francis Bacon
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A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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