Ayn RandWhat is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem. ✨ Playboy Interview, March, 1964.371Truth
Ayn RandIn a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.… ▶372HumanityPolitics
Ayn RandHappiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not th… ▶361PoliticsThoughtTruth
Ayn RandArt is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.60, Pengu… ▶372Truth
Ayn RandEvery loneliness is a pinnacle ✨ Ayn Rand (2005). The Fountainhead, p.264, Penguin372Humor
Ayn RandAbortion is a moral right-which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can concei… ▶373ReflectionThought
Ayn RandThe more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.373Politics
Ayn RandLobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government by pressu… ▶362PoliticsThought
Ayn RandReason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for t… ▶362HumanityTruth
Ayn RandHer face lay still on the air under his face. ✨ Ayn Rand (2016). Atlas Shrugged, p.189, Hamilton Books362Reading
Ayn RandAt first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his r… ▶362Life
Ayn RandWhen one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to s… ▶362Reading
Ayn RandI feel that others live up to me, if they want me. ✨ Ayn Rand (2016). Atlas Shrugged, p.287, Hamilton Books373Reading
Ayn RandDo you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect? Yes. My dear fellow, who will let you? That's not the point. The poin… ▶374ReadingThought
Ayn RandIt meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window,… ▶341Sadness
Ayn RandThat which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it. ✨ Ayn Rand (2016). Atlas Shrugged, p.478, Hamilton Books374LifeReading
Ayn RandThere’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know every… ▶363HumanityReading
Ayn RandI came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, ho… ▶341LifeReading
Ayn RandWhatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential. ✨ Ayn Rand (2005). The Fountainhead, p.13, Penguin374HopeLifeTime
Ayn RandAction without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.363Thought
Ayn RandThe three values which men had held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism — as a cultural power — died at the time of the Re… ▶364DeathHumanityLife
Ayn RandDo it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart375Humor
Ayn RandThe fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it immoral to offer or to accept voluntary, non-sacrificial assi… ▶364Truth
Ayn RandAn animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good for it or evil... Man has no automati… ▶375LifePhilosophy
Ayn RandShe felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to be borne patiently for a while… ▶353HumanityThought
Ayn RandYou'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants migh… ▶331HumanityReading
Ayn RandOnly a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence. ✨ Ayn Rand (1997). Journals of Ay… ▶342LifeTruth
Ayn RandOnly the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started. ✨ Ayn Rand (1963). For the New Intellectual: The … ▶353Philosophy
Ayn RandThe truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.342Truth
Ayn RandIt only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who spea… ▶353Time
