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Philosophy Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to…
- Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual…
- But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.
- Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, [the] attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality.
- What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to…
- Get the hell out of my way!
- I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of life…
- The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power.
- Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
- All work is an act of philosophy.
- The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
- I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
- I think, therefore I'll think.
- Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man…
- Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to…
- I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to…
- My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with…
- Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
- In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code…
- An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting…
- Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.
- Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with…
More Philosophy Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. — Marcus Aurelius
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
- We live on the leash of our senses. — Diane Ackerman
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon