Ayn Rand: Trending quotes (page 5)

“What is morality, she asked.
Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.”

“Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's individual value-judgments.”

“The most depraved type of human being… (is) the man without a purpose.”

“It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.”

“Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.”

“Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?”

“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.”

“The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”

“Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".”

“It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.”

“A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.”

“In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.”

“For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.”

“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.”

“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.”

“But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.”

“People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too… Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.”

“There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.”

“Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.”