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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 37

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Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.

Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.

Men, Guilt, Cash

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.332, Penguin

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

Numbers, Rights, Law

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.245, Penguin

The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of green so bright and pure that it hurt the eyes; the rest were not a color, but a light, the substance of fire on metal, living sparks without edges. And it looked as if the forest were a spread of light boiling slowly to produce this color, the green rising in small bubbles, the condensed essence of spring. The trees met, blending over the road and the spots of sun on the ground moved with the shifting of the branches, like a conscious caress.

Hurt, Spring, Eye

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.480, Penguin

She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.

Glasses, Feels Just, Common

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.697, Penguin

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

Reading, People, Library

Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (1999). “The Journals of Ayn Rand”, p.138, Penguin

Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.

Expression, Achievement, Desire

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1891, Penguin

The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

Wind, Coins, Treasure

Ayn Rand (2012). “Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)”, p.102, BookCaps Study Guides

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

Wish, Gone, Compromise

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.60, Penguin

But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark

Thinking, Howard Roark, Think Of You

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Business, Character, Men

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

For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.

Pain, Feelings, Alive

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

Men, Rights, Principles

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.94, Penguin

The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.

Independent, Men, Rights

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.76, Penguin

I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my mills, my Metal, my hours at a desk, at a furnace, in a laboratory, in an ore mine, as I love my ability to work, as I love the act of sight and knowledge, as I love the action of my mind when it solves a chemical equation or grasps a sunrise, as I love the things I've made and the things I've felt, as *my* product, as *my* choice, as a shape of my world, as my best mirror, as the wife I've never had, as that which makes all the rest of it possible: as my power to live.

Love You, Pride, Expression

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2002, Penguin

Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken, trampled, ordered, dominated, because that’s the impossible, in the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. That would be the one gift, the great exception you’d want to offer the man you loved. But it wouldn’t be easy for you.

Love You, Love Is, Men

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.640, Penguin

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

Men, Ideas, Speech

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

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours

Love Is, Affirmation, Grants

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

I will not die, it's the world that will end." paraphrase of unknown philosopher

World, Philosopher, Ends

Our dearest one. Fear nothing of the forest. There is no danger in solitude. We have no need of our brothers. Let us forget their good and our evil, let us forget all things save that we are together and that there is joy as a bond between us. Give us your hand. Look ahead. It is our own world, Golden One, a strange, unknown world, but our own.

Brother, Unknown Worlds, Hands

Ayn Rand (2012). “Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)”, p.91, BookCaps Study Guides

He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete and humiliating than his presence could enforce. He was giving her time to attempt an escape, in order to let her know her own helplessness when he chose to see her again.

Order, Giving, Waiting

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.241, Penguin

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

Evil, Justice, Suffering

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.434, Hamilton Books

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

Teacher, Brother, Home

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.326, Penguin

I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.

Want, Want Me, Feels

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.287, Hamilton Books

There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain.

Past, Proud, My Past

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.765, Penguin

When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and he wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of looking at the sky comes, not from what one contemplates, but from that uplift of one's head.

Uplifting, Sky, Peculiar

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.713, Penguin

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