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Ayn Rand Quotes about Greatness

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It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

Trust, Philosophy, Greatness

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.180, Penguin

The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to settle disputes among men according to objective laws ... The greatness of the Founding Fathers was how well they understood this issue and how close some of them came to understanding it perfectly.

Jobs, Father, Greatness

What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.

Self Esteem, Greatness, Three

Playboy Interview, March, 1964.

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

Dream, Happy Life, Greatness

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1850, Penguin

Hank, this is great." "Yes." He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This, she knew, was a tribute to her, the rarest one person could pay another: the tribute of feeling free to acknowledge one's own greatness, knowing that it is understood.

Greatness, Knowing, Voice

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.66, Hamilton Books

If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to destruction all the greatness of the world, all that which was mine and yours, which was made by us and is still ours by right - because I cannot believe that men refuse to see, that they can remain blind and deaf to us forever, when the truth is ours and their lives depend on accepting it.

Life, Believe, Greatness

"Atlas Shrugged".

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

Greatness, Novelists, Philosopher

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.382, Hamilton Books

Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for greatness, and the faculty that makes it possible. You will see that man is not a helpless monster by nature, but he becomes one when he discards that faculty: his mind. And if you ask me, what is greatness? I will answer, it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.

Self Esteem, Greatness, Men

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