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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 16

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In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe.

In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe.

Morning, Adventure, Childhood

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.816, Hamilton Books

Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".

Emotional, Worry, Waste

AYN RAND (1971). “THE FOUNTAINHEAD”

Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.

Believe, Heart, Thinking

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.471, Penguin

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life-that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.

Responsibility, Acceptance, Men

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.225, Penguin

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

Responsibility, Men, Islands

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.49, Penguin

Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.

Mean, Men, Evil

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.21, Penguin

I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Happiness, Being Happy, Philosophy

Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.46, Xist Publishing

No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and to compel them to act against their own voluntary choice. Only a government holds that power. The nature of governmental action is: coercive action. The nature of political power is: the power to force obedience under threat of physical injury-the threat of property expropriation, imprisonment, or death.

Government, Organization, Choices

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.43, Penguin

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

Moral, Cult, Revolt

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.74, Penguin

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

Lonely, Hero, Recovery

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.817, Hamilton Books

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 rights of the living.

Rights, Choices, Destroying

"A Last Survey - Part I". The Ayn Rand Letter, Vol. IV, No. 2, 1975.

If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still — nothing.

Writing, Lines, Stills

"The Unconquered: With Another, Earlier Adaptation of We the Living".

Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.

Worry, Want, Advantage

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.298, Penguin

Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage on success-sufferi ng is not a claim check, and its relief is not the goal of existence-man is not a sacrificial animal on anyone’s altar nor for anyone’s cause-life is not one huge hospital.

Animal, Men, Goal

If the Humanists wish to be champions of reason, they should consider the following: just as they would not admit mystics into their camp, since no rational discussion is possible with men who substitute supernatural revelations for rational evidence-so they cannot admit advocates of force into their camp, because no rational discussion or agreement is possible with men who substitute guns for rational persuasion.

Gun, Men, Champion

The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom.

Men, History, Mind

Ayn Rand (1971). “The New Left: the Anti-Industrial Revolution”

Do not let your fire go out.

Recovery, Fire, Overcoming Addiction

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.817, Hamilton Books

We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

Brother, Equality, Humanity

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.290, Penguin

Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.

Leadership, Voice, Culture

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.8, Penguin

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

Desire, Cost, Virtue

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.424, Penguin

For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors - between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.

Life, Sacrifice, Self

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.96, Penguin

Get the hell out of my way!

Strength, Courage, Philosophy

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2340, Penguin

Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are you in an incomprehensible chaos, a realm of inexplicable miracles, an unpredictable, unknowable flux, which your mind is impotent to grasp? The nature of your actions - and of your ambition - will be different, according to which set of answers you come to accept.

Ambition, Law, Miracle

Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.11, Penguin

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who are not interested in philosophy absorb its principles from the cultural atmosphere around them-from schools, colleges, books, magazines, newspapers, movies, television, etc. Who sets the tone of a culture? A small handful of men: the philosophers. Others follow their lead, either by conviction or by default.

Philosophy, Book, School

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.367, Penguin

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

Religious, Brother, War

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.674, Penguin

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