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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
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably — the man who respects it has earned it.
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 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
Do you know what she did today?" He leaned confidentially across the table, pointing at the dishes in the sink. "She wen — Ayn Rand
It was the smile of a man who is able to see, to know and to create the glory of existence. It was the mocking, challeng — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
No, you do not have to live as a man; it is an act of moral choice. But you cannot live as anything else—and the alterna — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
It’s not that I don’t suffer, it’s that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to be fought and throw — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
She survived it. She was able to survive it, because she did not believe in suffering. She faced with astonished indigna — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, t — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably — the man who respects it has earned it.
Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts n — Ayn Rand
A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong? — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrati — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged