Quotes about Objectivism

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Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to? — Ayn Rand
Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never t — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the ac — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Who is John Galt? — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach. — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let i — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I think, therefore I'll think. — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy. — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highes — Ayn Rand
We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon. — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be ear — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Your moral code begins by damning man as evil, then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for h — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable. — Stefan Molyneux
To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this:1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or abs — Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
Let's say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosing between them. I d — François Mitterrand, Memoir in Two Voices
Man is an end in himself. — Ayn Rand