Ayn Rand Quotes About Soul

• Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

  Ayn Rand

  Real, Hero, Recovery

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2269, Penguin

• I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Men, Soul

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.47, Xist Publishing

• To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Soul, Doe

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.551, Penguin

• Do not let the hero in your soul perish.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Hero, Recovery

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2269, Penguin

• Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

  Ayn Rand

  Lonely, Hero, Recovery

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.817, Hamilton Books

• It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning-and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or "The Fountainhead" that they will betray: it is their own souls.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Courage, Betrayal

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.13, Penguin

• It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.

  Ayn Rand

  Letting Go, Pain, Views

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.907, Penguin

• Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.

  Ayn Rand

  Hate, Sacrifice, Men

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.69, Penguin

• Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.

  Ayn Rand

  Art, Men, Fire

• Live a life as a monument to your soul.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Motivation, Soul

• Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.

  Ayn Rand

  Soul, Fountainhead, Function

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.514, Penguin

• No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Fighting, Soul

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.143, Penguin

• They had rejected the soul-body dichotomy, with its two corollaries: the impotence of man's mind and the damnation of this earth; they had rejected the doctrine of suffering as man's metaphysical fate, they proclaimed man's right to the pursuit of happiness and were determined to establish on earth the conditions required for man's proper existence, by the "unaided" power of their intellect.

  Ayn Rand

  Fate, Pursuit Of Happiness, Men

• Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.

  Ayn Rand

  Offering, People, Goal

• That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.

  Ayn Rand

  Character, Thinking, Choices

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.192, Penguin

• It's because...you see, if we had souls, which we haven't, and if our souls met--yours and mine--they'd fight to the death. But after they had torn each other to pieces, to the very bottom, they'd see that they had the same root.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Roots, Soul

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.106, Penguin

• Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What are your masses but millions of dull, shriveled, stagnant souls that have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, no will of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their brains? And for those you would sacrifice the few who know life, who are life? I loathe [Andrei] your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. Because men are not equal in ability and one can't trust them as if they were.

  Ayn Rand

  Dream, Sleep, Sacrifice

• An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means of a light bulb flashing on, above the head of a character who has suddenly grasped an idea. In simple, primitive terms, this is an appropriate symbol.

  Ayn Rand

  Character, Mean, Simple

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.289, Penguin

• The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories - with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe - but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Skulls, Soul

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.176, Penguin

• Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To love money is to known and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Money, Work

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.73, Penguin

• It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.

  Ayn Rand

  Hatred, Soul, Nickels

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1447, Penguin

• I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'. If, in the chaos of the motives that have made you listen to the radio tonight, there was an honest, rational desire to learn what is wrong with the world, you are the man whom I wished to address. By the rules and terms of my code, one owes a rational statement to those whom it does concern and who are making an effort to know. Those who are making an effort to fail to understand me, are not a concern of mine.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Order, Effort

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.1006, Penguin

• It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.... Let me give you a tip on men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the...bell of an approaching looter.

  Ayn Rand

  Running, Character, Men

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1447, Penguin

• A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.

  Ayn Rand

  Wall, Men, Giving

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.21, Penguin

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