Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 22

• The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep and Repent.” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form-by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance . . . .

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  Happiness, Happy, Friends

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.91, Penguin

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• The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.

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  Moral Development, Intellectual, Selfishness

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.7, Penguin

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• Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.

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  Expression, Political, Intellectual

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• But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach.

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  Destiny, Men, Views

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.590, Hamilton Books

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• Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil.

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  Evil, Degrees, Doe

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• That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.

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  Identity, Existence

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.478, Hamilton Books

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• Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers’ holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Abundance is (or was and ought to be) America’s pride-just as it is the pride of American parents that their children need never know starvation.

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  Religious, Children, Holiday

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• Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

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  Philosophy, Future, Fighting

  "The Romantic Manifesto". Book by Ayn Rand, 1969.

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• All work is an act of philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Work

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1853, Penguin

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• Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.

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  Men, Vision, Dawn

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

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• Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

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  Integrity, Ideas, Fountainhead

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.298, Penguin

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• My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

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  Happiness, Mean, Goal

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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• Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on what it is that one wishes to practice. Ferris: Haven't you always placed your self-interest above all else? Rearden: That is what I am doing right now.

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  Self, Practice, Wish

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• My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic principles. Every word, every action, every moment counts. (This is the pattern on which everybody makes mistakes [or] becomes irrational — not relating their one action or one conviction to another.

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  Mistake, Principles, Patterns

  Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (1999). “The Journals of Ayn Rand”, p.295, Penguin

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• The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

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  Inspirational, Addiction, Desire

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.792, Hamilton Books

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• Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade.

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  Atheist, Law, Atheism

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.893, Hamilton Books

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

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  Thinking, History, Age

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

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• you are never called upon to prove a negative. that's a law of logic.

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  Law, Negative, Logic

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• 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?

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  Romantic, Knowing, Hair

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

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• To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

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  Real, Power, Needs

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• Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

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  Love, Selfish, Self Esteem

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.41, Penguin

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• You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

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  Encounters, Fountainhead, Fountain Head

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.624, Penguin

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• One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

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  Life, Hate, Men

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.421, Penguin

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• Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate—do you hear me? no man may start—the use of physical force against others.

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  Men, Long, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.108, Penguin

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• Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.

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  Important, Sound, Friend Love

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.314, Penguin

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