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Ayn Rand , de son vrai nom Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum , est une philosophe, scénariste et romancière américaine d'origine russe, juive athée, née le 2 février 1905 à Saint-Pétersbourg et morte le 6 mars 1982 à New York.

Ayn Rand est connue pour sa philosophie rationaliste, proche de celle du mouvement politique libertarien, à laquelle elle a donné le nom d'« objectivisme ». Elle a écrit de nombreux essais philosophiques sur des concepts tenant de la pensée libérale, comme la liberté, la justice sociale, la propriété ou l'État et dont le principal , est La Vertu d'égoïsme . Ses contributions principales s'inscrivent dans les domaines de l'éthique, de la philosophie politique et de l'épistémologie. Populaires hors du champ académique, ses idées et leurs supports ne remportent pour autant pas un grand assentiment auprès des philosophes, sans doute rebutés par son style assez polémique et le ton parfois dogmatique de certains de ses soutiens.

Ayn Rand a également publié des œuvres de fiction telles que La Grève , La Source vive et Nous, les vivants , qui figurent parmi les plus vendues aux États-Unis. Elle a par ailleurs écrit de nombreux scénarios pour le cinéma, dont des adaptations de ses propres œuvres de fiction.

Ayn Rand est considérée comme la théoricienne d'un capitalisme individualiste ainsi que d'un libertarianisme refusant toute forme de coercition et prônant les valeurs de la raison, du mérite et de l'« égoïsme rationnel », son concept central. Figure de l'anti-communisme radical, Ayn Rand prône également l'indépendance et le « laissez-faire » face à toute forme de collectivisme ou de religion établis.

De nombreuses personnalités, comme le psychothérapeute Nathaniel Branden, les économistes Alan Greenspan et M. Northrup Buechner, le romancier Terry Goodkind, le président Ronald Reagan ou le fondateur de Wikipédia, Jimmy Wales, se réclament de ses conceptions. Ayn Rand a aussi profondément nourri la vision libertarienne dite minarchiste, replaçant l'individu au centre de la société et de l'éthique.

Elle avait trouvé dans Ludwig von Mises, lui aussi émigré aux États-Unis, le grand théoricien contemporain du laissez-faire qui complétait sa compréhension de l'économie.

Selon Alain Laurent, un des spécialistes francophones de son œuvre, Ayn Rand représenterait l'incarnation de la « self-made woman immigrée », « car elle réussit cet exploit tout en professant un athéisme radical et critiquant violemment l'altruisme au nom de l'« égoïsme rationnel » ». Ayn Rand fut par ailleurs la cible de nombreuses critiques dont la principale s'attache à expliquer qu'en dépit d'une argumentation se voulant rationnelle, elle n'en maîtrisait pas toujours les raisonnements.

✵ 2. février 1905 – 6. mars 1982  •  Autres noms Ayn Randová, Ann Rand
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“L'homme qui produit pendant que d'autres disposent du produit de son effort est un esclave.”

Ayn Rand livre La Vertu d'égoïsme

The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.
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La Vertu d'égoïsme

“Qui est John Galt?”

Ayn Rand

Who is John Galt?
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La Révolte d'Atlas

“Je ne considère pas les collectivistes comme des « idéalistes sincères mais abusés ». La suggestion de réduire en esclavage certains hommes pour le bien d'autres n'est pas un idéal; la brutalité n'est pas « idéaliste », peu importe son but.”

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“Si vous ne savez pas, la chose à faire n'est pas d'avoir peur, mais d'apprendre.”

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Ayn Rand: Citations en anglais

“Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.”

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Ayn Rand livre The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.”

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Ayn Rand livre The Fountainhead

Variante: A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Source: The Fountainhead

“She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.”

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Ayn Rand livre The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they?”

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Ayn Rand livre We the Living

Source: We the Living

“Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.”

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Ayn Rand livre The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.”

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Source: The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction

“I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.”

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Ayn Rand livre The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before…The fortune of my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of spirit.”

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Ayn Rand livre Anthem

Source: Anthem (1937)

“Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.”

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Ayn Rand livre The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.”

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Ayn Rand livre The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.”

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Ayn Rand livre The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.”

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“Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?”

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Ayn Rand livre The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.”

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“Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves.”

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“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.”

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Ayn Rand livre The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

Source: The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1971), p. 123

“Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!”

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Ayn Rand livre Anthem

Source: Anthem

“I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”

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Ayn Rand livre Atlas Shrugged

Variante: Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Source: Atlas Shrugged

“There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.”

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Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

“The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.”

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“It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.”

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Ayn Rand livre The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes”

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Ayn Rand livre The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.”

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Ayn Rand livre Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. 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.”

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Ayn Rand livre Anthem

Anthem (1937)

“There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours”

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Ayn Rand livre The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.”

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“Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death.”

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Ayn Rand

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

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