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Meaning Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes…
- It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will…
- One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate…
- The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is…
- To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.
- The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than…
- And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner.…
- When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning,…
- I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is…
- Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end;…
- Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important - what others have done?…
- I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my…
- I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to…
- You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning…
- They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete…
- To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that…
More Meaning Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — Saint Augustine
- Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man… — Sai Baba
- The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. — Richard Bach
- Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to… — Robert Baden-Powell
- It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have… — Ansel Adams
- When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally… — Ansel Adams
- I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some… — Toni Cade Bambara
- Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow. — Dennis Banks