~ Ayn Rand Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

[MysteRy]

Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source the precondition of his productive work - pride is the result.

[MysteRy]

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

[MysteRy]

If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality then there is no greater nobler more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking...the alleged short-cut to knowledge which is faith is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.

[MysteRy]

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself anything goes.

[MysteRy]

What you think is an illusion created by your glands your emotions and in the last analysis by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.