Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
AYN RANDThe Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
-
-
Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
AYN RAND -
The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
AYN RAND -
You 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 RAND -
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
AYN RAND -
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.
AYN RAND -
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
AYN RAND -
An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
AYN RAND -
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
AYN RAND -
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
AYN RAND -
When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
AYN RAND -
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
AYN RAND -
A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
AYN RAND -
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
AYN RAND -
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
AYN RAND -
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.
AYN RAND