Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Ayn Rand Quotes about Reality

All Ayn Rand Quotes Acceptance Achievement Acting Addiction Age Ambition Architecture Art Atheism Atheist Authority Being Happy Bill Of Rights Business Challenges Change Character Charity Children Choices Church Competition Compromise Conflict Consciousness Corruption Country Courage Creation Crime Culture Death Dedication Desire Dignity Duty Earth Economics Economy Effort Ego Egoism Emptiness Energy Eternity Ethics Evil Failing Fate Fear Feelings Fighting Free Market Freedom Frustration Funny Future Genius Giving Giving Up Gold Greatness Greed Guilt Hallmark Happiness Hate Hatred Heart History Home Honesty Honor House Humanity Hurt Identity Independence Individualism Individuality Insanity Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Joy Judgement Judgment Justice Justification Kindness Knowledge Leadership Leaving Liberty Life Literature Live Life Logic Loneliness Love Lust Lying Mankind Mediocrity Money Morality Morning Motivation Motivational Obedience Objectivism Pain Passion Past Peace Perception Persuasion Philosophy Politics Power Pride Progress Property Property Rights Purpose Racism Reading Reality quotes Recognition Recovery Religion Responsibility Running Sacrifice School Self Confidence Self Esteem Self Respect Selfishness Shame Sin Sleep Socialism Society Soul Struggle Stupidity Style Success Suffering Surrender Survival Talent Time Today Tolerance Trust Truth Tyranny Understanding Values Virtue Vision Waiting War Weakness Wealth Winning Wisdom Work Worship Writing

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

Reality, Oil, Liberty

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Reality, Consequence

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

Learning, Winning, Reality

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.781, Hamilton Books

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

Reality, Emotion, Fit

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

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

Thinking, Reality, Errors

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.260, Penguin

Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. Don't ignore your own desires.... Don't sacrifice them. Examine their cause. There is a limit to how much you should have to bear.

Sacrifice, Thinking, Reality

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1454, Penguin

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Work, Mean, Reality

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2260, Penguin

Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy — an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality — many of its myths are distorted, dramatized allegories based on some element of truth, some actual, if profoundly elusive, aspect of man's existence.

Philosophy, Reality, Views

"The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z".

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Motherhood, Gun, Reality

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.966, Penguin

In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

Self Esteem, Reality, Men

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.33, Penguin

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

Love, Dream, Reality

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

You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island that he would need it most. Let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today - and reality will wipe him out, as he deserves; reality will show him that life is a value to be bought and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

Life, Reality, Men

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.323, Penguin

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

Art, Reality, Judgment

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.60, Penguin

Nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatever.

Reality

Ayn Rand (1957). “ATLAS SHRUGGED”

To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight

Mean, Reality, Men

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.781, Hamilton Books

Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. "Things as they are" are things as perceived by your mind; divorce them from reason and they become "things as perceived by your wishes.

Mean, Divorce, Reality

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.791, Hamilton Books

When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.

Reality, Mind, Absolutism

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.35, Penguin

They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance' his food, his clothes, his shelter with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it from whom.

Reality, Men, Clothes

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2236, Penguin

Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.

Reality, Cognition, Tools

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Artist, Reality, Men

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.400, Penguin

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. Your mind is your only judge of truth - and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Nothing but a man's mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking. Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity.

Integrity, Thinking, Reality

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.260, Penguin

But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life.

Reality, Men, House

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.492, 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

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

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

You May Also Like: