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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 35

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Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.

Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.

Doctors, Titles, Bears

Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.263, Penguin

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power.

Philosophy, Men, Needs

Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.14, Penguin

Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to one’s own consciousness.

Consciousness, Form, Existence

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.127, Penguin

Morally, the promise of an impossible “right” to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights. It can and does mean only one thing: a promise to enslave the men who produce, for the benefit of those who don’t.

Mean, Men, Rights

Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

Men, Intellectual, Deep Thought

Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.

Desire, Duty, Interest

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.613, Hamilton Books

Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.

Soul, Fountainhead, Function

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

Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire for rest, for friendship, for the sound of human voices? Could I now reclaim a single hour spent talking to my brother, Philip, and give it to Ken Daggart? Who made it our duty to accept, as the only reward for our work, the gray torture of pretending love for those who roused nothing but contempt?

Brother, Giving Up, Talking

Through all the years that I spent formulating my philosophical system, I was looking desperately for “intelligent agreement” or at least for “intelligent disagreement.” I found neither. Today, I am not looking for “intelligent disagreement” any longer ... What I am looking for is intelligent agreement.

Intelligent, Agreement, Intelligence

"Letters of Ayn Rand".

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. To declare that “everybody is white” or “everybody is black” or “everybody is neither white nor black, but gray,” is not a moral judgment, but an escape from the responsibility of moral judgment.

Responsibility, Opposites, Two

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.319, Penguin

The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way.

Cheerful, Way, Facts

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

Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be wiped out, it will merely wipe out the wiper

Reality, Thinking, Wish

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

The three values which men had held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism — as a cultural power — died at the time of the Renaissance. Collectivism — as a political ideal — died in World War II. As to altruism — it has never been alive. It is the poison of death in the blood of Western civilization, and men survived it only to the extent to which they neither believed nor practiced it.

War, Men, Civilization

"Philosophy: Who Needs It".

A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born - an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity - an end in itself, not a means to an end.

Mean, Men, Law

Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.179, Penguin

Money is the root of all good.

Roots

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.317, Hamilton Books

A rational process is a moral process.

Morality, Reason, Process

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.102, Penguin

The plot of a movie is its motor. It is not an accident that people call pictures 'vehicles' for stars. A vehicle has to move. A plotless story is like an expensive car with a wonderful body design, luxurious seats, upholstery, headlights (production, direction, cast) - and no motor under its hood. That is why it gets nowhere.

Movie, Stars, Moving

Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.459, Penguin

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.

Philosophical, Men, Opposites

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.45, Penguin

If you get caught at some crucial point and somebody tells you that your doctrine doesn't make sense - you're ready for him. You tell him there's something above sense. That here he must not try to think, he must feel. He must believe. Suspend reason and you can play it deuces wild.

Believe, Thinking, Play

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.608, Penguin

This god, this one word: I.

Religion, Anthem, One Word

Ayn Rand (2011). “Anthem (一個人的頌歌)”, p.292, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.

New York, Sunset, Sight

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.423, Penguin

Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

Wisdom, Philosophy, Reality

Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.21, Penguin

I made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man.

Men, Able, Kind

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.567, Hamilton Books

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

Plot, Three, Scene

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.348, Penguin

When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.

Fighting, Men, Support

Ayn Rand's Ford Hall Forum lecture, 1974.

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