Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unrea…

Ayn Rand
779 citations
Reason 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 the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy. ✨ Ayn Rand (2005). The Fountainhead, p.329, Penguin
Humanity Truth
34

More Author Quotes

The only thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself. My work done my way. A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That’s the only way I function. That’s al … ▶
Whatever 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, Penguin
Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil. ✨ Ayn Rand (1964). The Virtue … ▶
The Romanticists predominantly, were enemies of capitalism, which they regarded as a prosaic, materialistic, “petty bourgeois” system — never realizing that it was the only system that could make fre … ▶
Because, you see, God - whatever anyone chooses to call God - is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very litt … ▶

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes