You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
AYN RANDContradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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