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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 22

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But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to

But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach.

Destiny, Men, Views

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.590, Hamilton Books

That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.

Identity, Existence

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.478, Hamilton Books

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers’ holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Abundance is (or was and ought to be) America’s pride-just as it is the pride of American parents that their children need never know starvation.

Religious, Children, Holiday

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.

Men, Vision, Dawn

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.13, Penguin

The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep and Repent.” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form-by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance . . . .

Happiness, Happy, Friends

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.91, Penguin

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

Philosophy, Future, Fighting

"The Romantic Manifesto". Book by Ayn Rand, 1969.

All work is an act of philosophy.

Philosophy, Work

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1853, Penguin

Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on what it is that one wishes to practice. Ferris: Haven't you always placed your self-interest above all else? Rearden: That is what I am doing right now.

Self, Practice, Wish

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

Integrity, Ideas, Fountainhead

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

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade.

Atheist, Law, Atheism

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.893, Hamilton Books

It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.

Thinking, History, Age

Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.336, Penguin

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Happiness, Mean, Goal

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

My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic principles. Every word, every action, every moment counts. (This is the pattern on which everybody makes mistakes [or] becomes irrational — not relating their one action or one conviction to another.

Mistake, Principles, Patterns

Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (1999). “The Journals of Ayn Rand”, p.295, Penguin

you are never called upon to prove a negative. that's a law of logic.

Law, Negative, Logic

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

Inspirational, Addiction, Desire

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.792, Hamilton Books

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

Life, Hate, Men

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.421, Penguin

She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him. She found pleasure in the special self-consciousness it gave her. When she crossed her legs, when she leaned on her arm against the window sill, when she brushed her hair off her forehead - every movement of her body was underscored by a feeling the unadmitted words for which were: Is he seeing it?

Romantic, Knowing, Hair

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.186, Hamilton Books

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Love, Selfish, Self Esteem

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.41, Penguin

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

Encounters, Fountainhead, Fountain Head

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.624, Penguin

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Real, Power, Needs

Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate—do you hear me? no man may start—the use of physical force against others.

Men, Long, Evil

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.108, Penguin

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; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. "Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life." "Your strength?" "Your work." He tossed the branch aside. "The material the earth offers you and what you make of it . . .

Hands, Tree, Looks

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.711, Penguin

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

Inspirational, Success, Acceptance

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.

Important, Sound, Friend Love

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.314, Penguin

The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.

Men, Purpose, Type

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.107, Penguin

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