A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
AYN RANDThe uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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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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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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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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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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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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