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“I've chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I'm only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards—and I set my...”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. I am a man.”
Ayn Rand
,
Anthem
“It's so much easier to pass judgment on a man than on an idea.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“We are all brothers under the skin-and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“She found a dark satisfaction in pain—because that pain came from him.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“the measure of the hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end.”
Ayn Rand
,
Anthem
“I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered—and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“Katie, why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world—to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we...”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view...”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“it's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“It takes two to make a very great career: the man who is great, and the man-almost rarer-who is great enough to see greatness and say so.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“Worry is a waste of emotional reserves.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another— their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“Within the extent of your knowledge, . . . you are right.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“What is morality? . . . Judgment to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.”
Ayn Rand
,
Anthem
“To place nothing—nothing—above the verdict of my own mind.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
“I love you so much that nothing can matter to me—not even you. Can you understand that? Only my love—not your answer. Not even your indifference.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“A house can have integrity, just like a person . . . and just as seldom.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“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
,
The Fountainhead
“Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you—except the things that count?”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust, but to know.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“It is not advisable . . . to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“To say 'I love you’ one must know first how to say the ’I.’”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning, my end is the work itself. My work done my way.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“I'd want it real. I'd take no pride in any hopeless longing. I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
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