I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
AYN RANDTo love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
-
-
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
AYN RAND -
As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
AYN RAND -
Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
AYN RAND -
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
AYN RAND -
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
AYN RAND -
The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
AYN RAND -
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
AYN RAND -
Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
AYN RAND -
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
AYN RAND -
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
AYN RAND -
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
AYN RAND -
Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
AYN RAND -
Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
AYN RAND -
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
AYN RAND -
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
AYN RAND






