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Ayn Rand Quotes

Ayn Rand quotes

Russian Writer February 2, 1905 – March 6, 1982

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Ayn Rand quote: "Wasn't it evil to wish without moving- or to move without aim?"
Wasn't it evil to wish without moving- or to move without aim? Ayn Rand
Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their faces, by something in their faces. Ayn Rand
You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is–say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Ayn Rand
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond..."
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind."
Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and..."
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. Ayn Rand
He felt something dark and leering in the manner with which people spoke of Prescott's genius; as if they were not doing homage to Prescott, but spitting upon genius. For once, Keating could not follow people; it was too clear, even to him, that public favor had ceased being a recognition of merit, that it had become almost a brand of shame. Ayn Rand
I'm going to die," he said aloud--and yawned. He felt no relief, no despair, no fear. The moment of his end would not grant him even the dignity of seriousness. It was an anonymous moment; a few minutes ago, he had held a toothbrush in that hand; now he held a gun with the same casual indifference. Ayn Rand
Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence... Ayn Rand
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 really want. Ayn Rand
\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 eachother to pieces, to the very bottom, they'd see that they had the same root. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "As down the centuries, a few men stand in lonely rectitude..."
As down the centuries, a few men stand in lonely rectitude that we may look and say, there is a human race behind us. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered..."
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. Ayn Rand
That was the real sentence imposed upon him, he thought - to discover what idea, what simple idea available to the simplest man, had made mankind accept the doctrines that led it to self-destruction. Ayn Rand

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