Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
AYN RANDThe uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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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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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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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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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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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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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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