The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
AYN RANDThe entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
AYN RANDYou can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
AYN RANDFreedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
AYN RANDDon’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
AYN RANDLive and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
AYN RANDA creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
AYN RANDThe problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
AYN RANDReality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
AYN RANDThe basic need of the creator is independence.
AYN RANDIt is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
AYN RANDThe Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
AYN RANDI never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
AYN RANDYou love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
AYN RANDA government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
AYN RANDTo deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
AYN RANDMy happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
AYN RAND