Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 32

• Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was no boasting in his manner and consciousness, no thought of comparison. His attitude was not: 'I can do it better than you,' but simply: 'I can do it.' What he meant by doing was doing superlatively.

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  Attitude, Effort, Consciousness

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.71, Hamilton Books

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• 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.

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  Offering, People, Goal

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• Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.

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  Writing, Eye, Office

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.161, Penguin

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• I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.

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  Fate, Thinking, Suffering

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.580, Hamilton Books

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• My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.

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  Choices, Morality, Reason

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.961, Penguin

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• Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes.

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  Accomplish, Bother, Folly

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.58, Penguin

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• but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.

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  Eye, Glasses, Blue

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.10, Xist Publishing

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• 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.

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  Love, Life, Sympathy

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

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• Your eyes are as a flame, but our brothers have neither hope nor fire. Your mouth is cut of granite, but our brothers are soft and humble. Your head is high, but our brothers cringe. You walk, but our brothers crawl. We wish to be damned with you, rather than blessed with all our brothers. Do as you please with us, but do not send us away from you.

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  Brother, Blessed, Humble

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.40, Xist Publishing

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• There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.

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  Fear, Sleep, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.20, Xist Publishing

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• We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they?

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  Years, Differences

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• When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could have no concern for mine and no exact conception of it. That answer is too personal to each man. But in giving himself what he wanted, he gave me a great experience.

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  Men, Symphony, Giving

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

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• They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation.

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  Voice, Relaxation, Sound

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.319, Penguin

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• She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind.

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  Believe, Mind, Kind

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.550, Hamilton Books

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• It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious

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  People, Waste, Subtle

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.265, Penguin

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• It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ears gives its song to the world. It is my mind which thinks, and the judgement of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth. It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.

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  Song, Eye, Thinking

  Ayn Rand (2012). “Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)”, p.101, BookCaps Study Guides

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• That time and those people are upon you!

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  Time, People

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• Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

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  Love, Life, Thinking

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.95, Penguin

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• What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

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  Fighting, Ideas, Charity

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.89, Penguin

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• What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.

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  Philosophy, Objectivity, Ideas

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.28, Penguin

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• Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure is the flow'r.

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  Names, Roots, Flow

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• There is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone.

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  Thinking, Transgression

  Ayn Rand (2012). “Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)”, p.33, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth the irrational.

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  Real, Philosophical, Fighting

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.382, Penguin

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• p.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that. He was a cold, disquieting presence in the room; his presence had a strange quality: it made itself felt and yet it made them feel that he was not there; or perhaps that he was and they weren't.

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  Men, Sight, Doors

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• It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.

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  Too Much, Martyr, Adversaries

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.341, Penguin

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