Ayn Rand quotes - page 9

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them. (Ayn Rand)
That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error. View quote
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. View quote
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Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right. View quote
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It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. View quote
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My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. View quote
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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder? View quote
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions. View quote
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The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. View quote
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When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody. View quote
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Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves. (Ayn Rand)
Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. View quote
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But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself. View quote
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Serenity comes from the ability to say "Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say "No” to the wrong choices made by others. View quote
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Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. View quote
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In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth. View quote
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Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one's consciousness can permit the faking of existence. View quote
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking. View quote
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A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends. View quote
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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. View quote
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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. (Ayn Rand)
There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think. View quote
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We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it. View quote
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The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. View quote
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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities. View quote
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