Fountainhead Quotes - Page 3

• The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive.

  Ayn Rand

  Independence, Mind, Needs

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.63, Penguin

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• A house can have integrity, just like a person.

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Home, House

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.131, Penguin

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• She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.

  Ayn Rand

  Morning, Would Be, Strange

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.594, Penguin

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• No man can use his brain to think for another.

  Ayn Rand

  Relationship, Men, Thinking

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

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• Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Self, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.804, Penguin

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• Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. 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. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Independence, Principles

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.877, Penguin

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• No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Ideas, Speech

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

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• And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Men, Thinking

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

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• Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You're so serious, so old. Everything's important with you. Everything's great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can't you ever be comfortable-and unimportant?" | Howard Roark: "No."

  Ayn Rand

  Important, Purpose, Way

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• In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone. An architect needs clients, but he does not subordinate his work to their wishes. They need him, but they do not order a house just to give him commission. Men exchange their work by free, mutual consent to mutual advantage when their personal interests agree and they both desire the exchange.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Men, Order

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.65, Penguin

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• I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Answers, Matter

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• Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Ideas, Ability

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

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• I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.

  Ayn Rand

  Howard Roark, Minutes, One Minute

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

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• In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.65, Penguin

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• To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

  Ayn Rand

  Life Changing, Passion, Mean

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.571, Penguin

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• From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Religious, Men, Mind

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• I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Death, Bad Ass

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.783, Penguin

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• Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Freedom, Independent Women

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• I am a man who does not exist for others.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Doe, Howard Roark

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

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• I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need?

  Ayn Rand

  New York, Sunset, Men

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

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• The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Howard Roark, Dear

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

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• A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Ego, Progress

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• I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

  Ayn Rand

  Badass, Bad Ass, Order

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