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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

Ayn Rand
Inspirational, Soul, Doe
Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.551, Penguin

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

Ayn Rand
Life, Motivation, Soul

I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

Ayn Rand
Brother, Men, Soul
Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.47, Xist Publishing

It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.

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

Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.

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

An artist reveals his naked soul in his work.

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

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.

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

It's because...you see, if we had souls, which we haven't, and if our souls met--yours and mine--they'd fight to the death. But after they had torn each other to pieces, to the very bottom, they'd see that they had the same root.

Ayn Rand
Fighting, Roots, Soul
Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.106, Penguin

No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.

Ayn Rand
Self Esteem, Fighting, Soul
Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.143, Penguin

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