What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
AYN RANDWhat is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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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.
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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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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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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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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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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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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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