Ayn Rand Quotes About Feelings

• The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Men, Order

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.404, Penguin

• A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Feelings, Tools

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.34, Penguin

• I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.

  Ayn Rand

  Feelings, Firsts

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.696, Penguin

• She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him. She found pleasure in the special self-consciousness it gave her. When she crossed her legs, when she leaned on her arm against the window sill, when she brushed her hair off her forehead - every movement of her body was underscored by a feeling the unadmitted words for which were: Is he seeing it?

  Ayn Rand

  Romantic, Knowing, Hair

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.186, Hamilton Books

• Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Reality, Justice

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.842, Penguin

• For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.

  Ayn Rand

  Pain, Feelings, Alive

• It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure. Now it's over, and it doesn't make any difference to anyone, and it isn't that they are indifferent, it's just that they don't know, they don't know what it means, that treasure of mine, and there's something about it that they should understand. I don't understand it myself, but there's something that should be understood by all of us. Only what is it? What?

  Ayn Rand

  Beautiful, Mean, Differences

• This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.

  Ayn Rand

  Feelings, World, Wonder

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.751, Penguin

• Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. "Things as they are" are things as perceived by your mind; divorce them from reason and they become "things as perceived by your wishes.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Divorce, Reality

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.791, Hamilton Books

• Hank, this is great." "Yes." He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This, she knew, was a tribute to her, the rarest one person could pay another: the tribute of feeling free to acknowledge one's own greatness, knowing that it is understood.

  Ayn Rand

  Greatness, Knowing, Voice

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.66, Hamilton Books

• A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Thinking, Feelings

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.47, Penguin

• Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge.

  Ayn Rand

  Commitment, Feelings, Tools

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.34, Penguin

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