My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
AYN RANDYou have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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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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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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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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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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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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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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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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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.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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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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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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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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I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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