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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 33

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p.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that.

p.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that. He was a cold, disquieting presence in the room; his presence had a strange quality: it made itself felt and yet it made them feel that he was not there; or perhaps that he was and they weren't.

Men, Sight, Doors

You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached.

Ambition, World, Moments

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2125, Penguin

If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like this!' The writer who doesn't understand that this is beside the point is not a writer at all.

Stories, Happened, Ifs

Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.163, Penguin

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!

Inspirational, Romance, Corners

Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their faces, by something in their faces.

People, Waiting, Faces

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.153, Penguin

Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.

Men, Rights, Liberty

A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

Desire, Doe, Care

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.13, Penguin

It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Selfish

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

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Artist, Reality, Men

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.400, Penguin

Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.

Freedom, Men, Mind

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

Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both...Not both.

People, Mind, Looks

Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You're so serious, so old. Everything's important with you. Everything's great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can't you ever be comfortable-and unimportant?" | Howard Roark: "No."

Important, Purpose, Way

You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.

Knowledge, Errors, Evil

You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehead for all of them to see. You love it and they know it, and they know they have you. Do you ever look at the people in the street? Aren't you afraid of them? I am. They move past you and they wear hats and they carry bundles. But that's not the substance of them. The substance of them is hatred for any man who loves his work. That's the only kind they fear. I don't know why

Moving, Past, Men

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.61, Penguin

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

Freedom, Sacrifice, Reason

I think, therefore I'll think.

Inspirational, Life, Philosophy

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

Evil, Justification, Knows

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.72, Penguin

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 personal desires - if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?

Business, Men, Views

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1928, Penguin

It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.... Let me give you a tip on men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the...bell of an approaching looter.

Running, Character, Men

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1447, Penguin

Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet Russia, Cuba, or any other slave pen. Whether a free nation chooses to do so or not is a matter of its own self-interest, not of respect for the nonexistent 'rights' of gang rulers. It is not a free nation's duty to liberate other nations at the price of self-sacrifice, but a free nation has the right to do it, when and if it so chooses.

Sacrifice, Russia, Rights

A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!

Integrity, Men, Ideas

"Fictional character: Howard Roark". "The Fountainhead", www.imdb.com. 1949.

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 are not merely mistaken, but evil, and yet, from a purely literary viewpoint, on his own terms, I have to evaluate him as a good writer.

Philosophy, Reading, Evil

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (1966). “The Objectivist”

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 knowledge that you can deal. It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. Your mind is your only judge of truth - and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Nothing but a man's mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking. Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity.

Integrity, Thinking, Reality

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.260, Penguin

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

Mediocrity, Lines, Architecture

Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.156, Penguin

If an uncompromising stand is to be smeared as 'extremism,' then that smear is directed at any devotion to values, any loyalty to principles, any profound conviction, any consistency, any steadfastness, any passion, any dedication to an unbreached, inviolate truth -- any man of integrity.

Loyalty, Integrity, Passion

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.173, Penguin

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