Objectivism Quotes
Ayn Rand
Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?
1811 Ayn Rand
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
4812 Ayn Rand
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
2780 Ayn Rand
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
1570 Ayn Rand
I think, therefore I'll think.
2000 Ayn Rand
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.
4784 Ayn Rand
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.
3732 Ayn Rand
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.
4433 Ayn Rand
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.
1389 Ayn Rand
We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.
4256 Ayn Rand
The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.
3777 Amit Kalantri
A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.
4062 Matt Taibbi
To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this:
1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason.
2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right.
3. Charity is immoral.
4. Pay for your own fucking schools.
3716 Amit Kalantri
In meetings philosophy might work,
on the field practicality works.
1062 Ayn Rand
One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns and derives from love.
3563 Ellen Kenner
True love is egoism à duex - egoism for two.
4582 Ellen Kenner
Romantic love is the most selfish of all emotions.
2740 Mark David Henderson
You want to know what's wrong with the world?" Dad paused. "It's this alienation that permeates every aspect of humanity.
1431 Max T. Furr
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must approve the homage of reason rather than of blindfolded fear. (Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Peter Carr, 10 Aug. 1787, Lower case "g" in "god" retained)
2476 Amit Kalantri
A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.
2915 Amit Kalantri
Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.
2409 Amit Kalantri
Sometimes I do face failures, but I don't like failures.
4022 Ayn Rand
The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.
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