Ayn Rand Quotes About Age

• This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Age, Titles

• That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt, and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you’ve felt what it means to love as you and I know it – the total passion for the total height – you’re incapable of anything less.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Life, Sympathy

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.572, Penguin

• In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that you know the nature of that period and the state of human existence in those ages. The Renaissance broke the rules of the mystics. "Renaissance" means the "rebirth". Few people today will care to remind you that it was a rebirth of reason - of man's mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Dark, Men

• The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'

  Ayn Rand

  Success, Men, Years

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.182, Hamilton Books

• It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, History, Age

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.336, Penguin

• The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

  Ayn Rand

  Age, Gone, Caves

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.735, Penguin

• The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, History, Mind

  Ayn Rand (1971). “The New Left: the Anti-Industrial Revolution”

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