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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 32

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A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

Matter, Moments, Eternity

Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.436, Penguin

Today we have discovered the word that could not be said. "I

Today, Said

Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values, and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.

Men, Goal, Joy

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.107, Penguin

I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.

Fate, Thinking, Suffering

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.580, Hamilton Books

My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.

Choices, Morality, Reason

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.961, Penguin

Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes.

Accomplish, Bother, Folly

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.58, Penguin

but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.

Eye, Glasses, Blue

Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.10, Xist Publishing

That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt, and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you’ve felt what it means to love as you and I know it – the total passion for the total height – you’re incapable of anything less.

Love, Life, Sympathy

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.572, Penguin

Your eyes are as a flame, but our brothers have neither hope nor fire. Your mouth is cut of granite, but our brothers are soft and humble. Your head is high, but our brothers cringe. You walk, but our brothers crawl. We wish to be damned with you, rather than blessed with all our brothers. Do as you please with us, but do not send us away from you.

Brother, Blessed, Humble

Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.40, Xist Publishing

There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.

Fear, Sleep, Men

Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.20, Xist Publishing

We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they?

Years, Differences

When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could have no concern for mine and no exact conception of it. That answer is too personal to each man. But in giving himself what he wanted, he gave me a great experience.

Men, Symphony, Giving

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.514, Penguin

They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation.

Voice, Relaxation, Sound

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.319, Penguin

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind.

Believe, Mind, Kind

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.550, Hamilton Books

It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious

People, Waste, Subtle

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.265, Penguin

It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ears gives its song to the world. It is my mind which thinks, and the judgement of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth. It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.

Song, Eye, Thinking

Ayn Rand (2012). “Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)”, p.101, BookCaps Study Guides

That time and those people are upon you!

Time, People

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

Love, Life, Thinking

Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.95, Penguin

What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

Fighting, Ideas, Charity

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.89, Penguin

What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.

Philosophy, Objectivity, Ideas

Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.28, Penguin

Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure is the flow'r.

Names, Roots, Flow

There is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone.

Thinking, Transgression

Ayn Rand (2012). “Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)”, p.33, BookCaps Study Guides

Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth the irrational.

Real, Philosophical, Fighting

Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.382, Penguin

It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.

Too Much, Martyr, Adversaries

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.341, Penguin

Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting, and we're pushed into it by one single desire. You want a thing and it's precious to you. Do you know who is standing ready to tear it out of your hands? You can't know, it may be so involved and so far away, but someone is ready, and you're afraid of them all. And you cringe and you crawl and you beg and you accept them--just so they'll let you keep it. And look at whom you come to accept.

Hands, Waiting, Tears

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.138, Penguin

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