Ayn Rand Quotes about Love

I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.

I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.

Ayn Rand

Love, Husband, Sacrifice

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

Ayn Rand

Love, Attitude, Men

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.552, Penguin

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

Ayn Rand

Love, Inspirational, Life

Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.

Ayn Rand

Love, Self, Admiration

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Ayn Rand

Love, Life, Character

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.98, Penguin

An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.

Ayn Rand

Love, Dream, Reality

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.159, Penguin

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.

Ayn Rand

Love, Honesty, Cash

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.218, Penguin

I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference

Ayn Rand

Love, Answers, Matter

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Ayn Rand

Love, Selfish, Self Esteem

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

You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.

Ayn Rand

Love, Faith, Art

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.472, Penguin

I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of the sun on his untroubled forehead and closed eyelids, what I experienced was not a prayer, I do not pray, but that state of spirit at which a prayer is a misguided attempt: a full, confident, affirming self-dedication to my love of the right, to the certainty that the right would win and that this boy would have the kind of future he deserved... I did not expect it to be as great as this - or as hard.

Ayn Rand

Love, Morning, Prayer

"Atlas Shrugged".

That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt, and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you’ve felt what it means to love as you and I know it – the total passion for the total height – you’re incapable of anything less.

Ayn Rand

Love, Life, Sympathy

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.572, Penguin

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

Ayn Rand

Love, Life, Thinking

Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.95, Penguin

We are one...alone...and only...and we love you who are one...alone...and only. We looked into each other's eyes and we knew the breath of a miracle had touched us, and fled, and left us groping vainly. And we felt torn, torn for some word we could not find.

Ayn Rand

Love, Eye, Miracle

Ayn Rand (2015). “Anthem”, p.44, Xist Publishing

Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To love money is to known and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.

Ayn Rand

Love, Money, Work

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.73, Penguin

Ayn Rand Quotes about Love

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