Fountainhead Quotes - Page 2

• Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Progress Of Society, Civilization

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.77, Penguin

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• Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." Roark: "But I don't think of you.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Wish, Howard Roark

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.369, Penguin

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• Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Insanity, Swim

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.129, Penguin

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• Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test of virtue is to make suffering the most important part of life. Then man must wish to see others suffer in order that he may be virtuous. Such is the nature of altruism.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Order, Suffering Of Others

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

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• The daily adoration or visit to the Blessed Sacrament is the practice which is the fountainhead of all devotional works

  Pope Pius X

  Blessed, Practice, Devotional

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• Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Imbeciles, Firsts

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.60, Penguin

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

  Ayn Rand

  Soul, Function, Values

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

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• Rulers exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as dependent as the beggar, the social worker and the bandit. The form of dependence does not matter.

  Ayn Rand

  Goal, Political, Doe

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.76, Penguin

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• Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.471, Penguin

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• The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Live For Others, He Man

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.74, Penguin

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• 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

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• The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

  Ayn Rand

  Artist, Men, Howard Roark

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

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• The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Men, Liberty

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

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• Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Men, Challenges

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.62, Penguin

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• The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

  Vince Vaughn

  Book, Rereading, Lasts

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• Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting, and we're pushed into it by one single desire. You want a thing and it's precious to you. Do you know who is standing ready to tear it out of your hands? You can't know, it may be so involved and so far away, but someone is ready, and you're afraid of them all. And you cringe and you crawl and you beg and you accept them--just so they'll let you keep it. And look at whom you come to accept.

  Ayn Rand

  Hands, Waiting, Tears

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.138, Penguin

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

  Ayn Rand

  Encounters, Fountain Head, Has Beens

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

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• I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

  Ayn Rand

  People, Half, Way

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.483, Penguin

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• Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".

  Ayn Rand

  Self, Moments, Motivated

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.56, Penguin

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• Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Self, Worst

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.549, Penguin

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• You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Attitude, Men

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.552, Penguin

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• The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Political, Politics

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.875, Penguin

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• I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.

  Ayn Rand

  Regret, Emptiness, Moments

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.524, Penguin

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• Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes." My dear fellow, who will let you?" That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Thinking, Way

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.20, Penguin

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• There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we’re not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.

  Ayn Rand

  Wise, Understanding, Faces

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.345, Penguin

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