Ayn Rand — Philosophical Quotes

341 quotes · Philosopher, Novelist

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Ayn Rand Quotes

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Ayn Rand

Philosopher, Novelist

Philosophical

“Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.”

Today Talent Luck

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Ayn Rand

Philosopher, Novelist

Philosophical

“I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.”

Humanity Worship Individuality

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Philosophical

“... reason accepts no commandments.”

Fear Atheism

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Philosophical

“The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.”

Men Purpose

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Philosophical

“Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos). But the expression "collective rights"? is a contradiction in terms.”

Men Rights Expression

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Philosophical

“Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. "Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life." "Your strength?" "Your work." He tossed the branch aside. "The material the earth offers you and what you make of it . . .”

Looks Hands Tree

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Philosophical

“To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.”

Men Brother

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Philosophical

“It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.”

Inspirational Wish

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Philosophical

“Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are not convinced, ignore our certainty. Don't be tempted to substitute our judgment for your own.”

Facts Temptation Judgment

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Philosophical

“Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.”

Religion Lines Defense

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Philosophical

“Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.”

Men Sides Black And White

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Philosophical

“Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.”

Doe Gun Gold

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