He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.
Ayn RandStichwörter: inspirational
What in hell are you really made of, Howard? After all, it's only a building. It's not the combination of holy sacrament, Indian torture, and sexual ecstasy that you seem to make of it."
"Isn't it?
Stichwörter: art passion inspiration howard-roark
If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him.
Ayn RandStichwörter: estate-tax
There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.
Ayn RandLove is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions. Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself.
Ayn RandEvil requires the sanction of the victim.
Ayn RandCan you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What are your masses but millions of dull, shriveled, stagnant souls that have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, no will of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their brains? And for those you would sacrifice the few who know life, who are life? I loathe [Andrei] your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. Because men are not equal in ability and one can't trust them as if they were.
Ayn RandStichwörter: we-the-living
A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.
Ayn RandDo not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads
Ayn RandA desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving.
Ayn RandStichwörter: goals action desire
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