Quotes from book

The Romantic Manifesto

“Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.”

Ayn Rand book The Romantic Manifesto

The Romantic Manifesto (1969)

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

Ayn Rand book The Romantic Manifesto

The Romantic Manifesto (1969)

“An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it.”

Ayn Rand book The Romantic Manifesto

The Romantic Manifesto (1969)

“Art is man’s metaphysical mirror; what a rational man seeks to see in that mirror is a salute; what an irrational man seeks to see is a justification – even if only a justification of his depravity, as a last convulsion of his betrayed self-esteem.”

Ayn Rand book The Romantic Manifesto

Source: The Romantic Manifesto (1969), Chapter 3 ("Art and Sense of Life")

“Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.”

Ayn Rand book The Romantic Manifesto

Source: The Romantic Manifesto (1969), Chapter 3 ("Art and Cognition")