"Whether you know the shape of a pebble……" — Ayn Rand
"Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it."
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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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I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel…
— Margaret Atwood
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
— Marcus Aurelius
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
— Gaston Bachelard
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I…
— Kevin Bacon
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The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
— David Bailey
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human…
— Ansel Adams
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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out…
— Dave Barry
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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever…
— John Adams
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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and…
— Charles Baudelaire
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of…
— Jean Baudrillard
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