You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is–say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Ayn RandBy the grace of reality and the nature of life, man–every man–is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose
Ayn RandOne puts oneself above all and crushes everything in one's way to get the best for oneself.
Ayn RandTags: batshit
We knew this well, in the years of our childhood, but our curse broke our will. We were guilty and we confess it here: we were guilty of the great Transgression of Preference. We preferred some work and some lessons to the others. We did not listen well to the history of all the Councils elected since the Great Rebirth. But we loved the Science of Things. We wished to know. We wished to know about all the things which make the earth around us. We asked so many questions that the Teachers forbade it.
Ayn RandHe has once built his fortune, starting out with empty hands; now he had to rebuild his life, starting out with an empty spirit
Ayn RandTo irrational principles, one cannot be loyal. Ideas that are not derived from reality cannot be consistently practiced in reality.
--as quoted by Leonard Peikoff in "Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Tags: reason objectivism rational-thought
Wasn't it evil to wish without moving- or to move without aim?
Ayn RandAs a human being, you have no choice about the fact that you need a philosophy. Your only choice is whether you define your philosophy by a conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought and scrupulously logical deliberation - or let your subconscious accumulate a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, undefined contradictions, undigested slogans, unidentified wishes, doubts and fears, thrown together by chance, but integrated by your subconscious into a kind of mongrel philosophy and fused into a single, solid weight: self-doubt,
Like a ball and chain in the place where your mind's wings should have grown.
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Ayn RandI told them that the form of a building must follow its function".
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