We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
AYN RANDDo not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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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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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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