A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.
Ayn RandMots clés life philosophy
Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.
Ayn RandMots clés philosophy idealism
An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.
Ayn RandMots clés philosophy
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.
Ayn RandMots clés money philosophy capitalism profit businessmen
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.
Ayn RandMots clés philosophy good force
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
Ayn RandMots clés reason philosophy epistemology
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
Ayn RandMots clés philosophy evil
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.
Ayn RandMots clés philosophy individualism
In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.
Ayn RandMots clés philosophy evil good
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 RandMots clés philosophy compromise
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