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Reality Quotes by Ayn Rand
- 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…
- No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own…
- An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.
- You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island…
- Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and…
- To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to…
- But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into…
- They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his…
- Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most…
- Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the…
- Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
- Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, [the] attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality.
- The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality.…
- A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls; it does not…
- You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
- Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist and the self-confidence…
- The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may…
- Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be…
- What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray…
- An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
- Nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatever.
- The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
- Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
- Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to…
- To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict…
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships… — J. J. Abrams
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. — Neil Armstrong
- Journalism is literature in a hurry. — Matthew Arnold
- Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov