Ayn Rand: Trending quotes (page 7)

“When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.”

“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”

“Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.”

“If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive?… Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.”

“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.”

“Every loneliness is a pinnacle”

“The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.”

“But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment.”

“The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.”

“Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.”

“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”

“Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.”

“Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.”

“She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.”

“Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.”

“In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.”

“Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.”

“There can be no compromise on moral principles.”

“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.”