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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 36

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Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

Art, Intelligent, Attractive

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

Range, Interest, Neurotic

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary.

Capitalist, Humans, Human Relations

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.17, Penguin

One's own independent judgment is the means by which one must choose one's actions, but it is not a moral criterion nor a moral validation; only reference to a demonstrable principle can validate one's choices.

Mean, Independent, Validation

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.450, Penguin

Most American men are repressors.

Men

I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!

Evil, Please, Regard

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

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

Thinking, Self, Achievement

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.578, Penguin

An artist reveals his naked soul in his work.

Artist, Soul, Naked

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

Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.

Rights, Numbers, Groups

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.385, Penguin

In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone. An architect needs clients, but he does not subordinate his work to their wishes. They need him, but they do not order a house just to give him commission. Men exchange their work by free, mutual consent to mutual advantage when their personal interests agree and they both desire the exchange.

Sacrifice, Men, Order

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.65, Penguin

Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept.

Accepting, Tribunals, Premises

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

Parties are intended to be celebrations, and celebrations should be only for those who have something to celebrate.

Party, Celebration, Celebrate

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.114, Hamilton Books

Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications - in order to hide one's motives, not just from others, but primarily from oneself. The price of rationalizing is the hampering, the distortion, and, ultimately, the destruction of one's cognitive faculty. Rationalization is a process not of perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions.

Reality, Order, Giving

Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.25, Penguin

Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.

Mean, Style, Stories

The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories - with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe - but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread.

Men, Skulls, Soul

Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.176, Penguin

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

Mean, Animal, Men

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

The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.

Beautiful, Exercise, Giving

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

Goal, Rewards, Life Is

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.521, Penguin

Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver

Tools, Want, Drivers

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.

Passion, Artist, Desire

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.92, Penguin

The symbol of all relationships among such men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trader. We, who live by values, not by loot, are traders, both in matter and in spirit. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.

Men, Giving, Doe

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

Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.

Men, Acting, Purpose

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

Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality-not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute.

Acceptance, Men, Thinking

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.999, Penguin

Have you ever felt a potential love for someone? Like, you don't actually love them and you know you don't, but you know you could. You realise that you could easily fall in love with them. It's almost like the bud of a flower, ready to blossom but it's just not quite there yet. And you like them a lot, you really do. You think about them often, but you don't love them. You could, though. You know you could.

Falling In Love, Flower, Thinking

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.

Judgement, Morality, Action

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