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Sense Quotes by Ayn Rand
- The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters are those who…
- To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.
- Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a lifelong process - and the higher the values, the…
- She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that…
- 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…
- We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity…
- What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising…
- A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may…
- She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one…
- It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels…
- A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his…
- Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important - what others have done?…
- There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours
- She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous…
- One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes
- One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.
- I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.
- The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense…
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