Atlas Quotes

You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.

Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

In the beginning I tried to accommodate everything there that was somewhere between art and garbage and that somehow seemed important to me and a pity to throw away. After a while, some sheets in the Atlas acquired another value, after all - that is, it seemed to me that they could stand on their own terms, not only under the protection of the Atlas.

I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.

I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?

Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.

The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan.

As for me, I did the stupidest thing in my life, which is saying a lot. I attacked the Titan Lord Atlas.

I give out Atlas Shrugged as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it.

I've loved you since the day I stole the atlas for you," Gabriel says, because he thinks I'm asleep.

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.