Fountainhead Quotes

• 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

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• Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Together, Taught

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.64, Penguin

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• Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Men, Progress Of Society

  The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 18 (1943)

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• I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others." - Howard Roark

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Numbers, Energy

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.78, Penguin

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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.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Life, Sympathy

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

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• Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Independence, Gauges

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.75, Penguin

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• The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Self, World

  The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 18 (1943)

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• Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important - what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being your own? Why is anyone and everyone right - so long as it's not yourself? Why does the number of those others take the place of truth? Why is truth made a mere matter of arithmetic - and only of addition at that? Why is everything twisted out of all sense to fit everything else? There must be some reason. I don't know. I've never known it. I'd like to understand.

  Ayn Rand

  Truth, Men, Numbers

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.23, Penguin

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• But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Average, Individuality

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.73, Penguin

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• But you see," said Roark quietly, "I have, let’s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. I’ve chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I’m only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards. I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I may, perhaps, stand at the beginning of one.

  Ayn Rand

  Years, Joy, May

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.36, Penguin

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• Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

  Ayn Rand

  People, Want, Howard Roark

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.30, Penguin

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• Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.

  Madame de Stael

  Giving, Charity, Commodity

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• Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• The more you give, the more you can give.

  Roy T. Bennett

  True Love, Baby, Generous Love

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• Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers — show me yours — show me that it is possible — show me your achievement — and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Courage, Brother

  "The Fountainhead".

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• The miracle is this - the more you give, the more you have.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Giving, Miracle, Charity

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• The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible... But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.

  Ayn Rand

  Airplane, Artist, Men

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.72, Penguin

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• The more you give, the more you live.

  Blake Mycoskie

  True Love, Baby, Abundance Of Love

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• True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  True Love, Love Is, Giving

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• Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

  Ayn Rand

  Progress Of Society, Civilization, Political

  The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 18 (1943)

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• I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.

  Ayn Rand

  New York, Sunset, Sight

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.423, Penguin

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• I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

  Clarence Thomas

  Atlas

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• Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

  Ayn Rand

  Giving, Achievement, Show Me

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.399, Penguin

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• For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Valentines Day, Giving

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• Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Religious, Animal, Men

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