Ayn Rand: Trending quotes (page 4)

“What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.”

“But I don't think of you.

(Howard Roark)”

“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.”

“It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.”

“I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.”

“Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.”

“Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building, when and if you are an architect?”
“Yes.”
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”

“Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.”

“In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.”

“One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.”

“I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.”

“Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.”

“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves-or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.”

“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.”

“Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.”

“But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.”

“Never ask people about your work.”

“He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.”

“I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.”