Ayn Rand Quotes & Sayings | Minimalist Quotes

What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Chemical Collection Delusion Man
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Men Seek Truth
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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Life Live Love Man Sake Swear
I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Corruption Done One Liner
To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Love One Liner Virtue Woman
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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Encounter Life Repeat
Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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Attraction Experience Himself Man Permit Self Esteem Sex Surrender Vision Woman
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Characteristics Essential Individual Property Rights Social
She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Confess Happiness Naked Pain She Witness
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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Afraid Creation Human Nature Look People Straight Trouble Walk
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Black Lives Matter Collective Racism
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Decision Evidence Ignorance
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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Achievement Existence Goals Joy Moments Stumble Torture Vision
Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Discriminate Opposite Same Tolerance Variant
As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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Certain Improvement Inspirational Knowledge Learning
Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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Give Up Life Motivational Struggle Want Worth
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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Attempt Emotion Perceive Process Rational Reality
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Action Cause Citizen Government Private
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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Die Enjoyment Live Moral Purpose Suffering Teaching Yourself
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Capital Creation Earth High Live Standard
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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Driver Money replace Tool
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Avoid Death Life Live Positive
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Argument Confession Intellectual Intimidate
A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Conviction Fundamental Man Result Sex
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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Compromise Frustration Fulfillemnt General Lead Satisfaction Try
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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Alone Automatic Conquer Count Deny Leaving Reason
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Achievement Beat Creative Desire Man Motivational

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