Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions. Ayn Rand More Quotes by Ayn Rand More Quotes From Ayn Rand The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO. Ayn Rand ego self heart If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like this!' The writer who doesn't understand that this is beside the point is not a writer at all. Ayn Rand happened ifs stories Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done. Ayn Rand office eye writing Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. Ayn Rand unfeeling persons mean Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. Ayn Rand philosophical opposites men For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners. Ayn Rand running joy religion If you get caught at some crucial point and somebody tells you that your doctrine doesn't make sense - you're ready for him. You tell him there's something above sense. That here he must not try to think, he must feel. He must believe. Suspend reason and you can play it deuces wild. Ayn Rand play believe thinking This god, this one word: I. Ayn Rand anthem one-word religion Your eyes are as a flame, but our brothers have neither hope nor fire. Your mouth is cut of granite, but our brothers are soft and humble. Your head is high, but our brothers cringe. You walk, but our brothers crawl. We wish to be damned with you, rather than blessed with all our brothers. Do as you please with us, but do not send us away from you. Ayn Rand brother blessed humble I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Ayn Rand sunset new-york sight i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove it, that's fine. but you don't tell me you can't know that there isn't. i would say yes i know there isn't because i have been given no evidence. Ayn Rand if-there-is-a-god given negative Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. Ayn Rand unique animal men Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob. Ayn Rand rights law numbers She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning. Ayn Rand strange would-be morning The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of green so bright and pure that it hurt the eyes; the rest were not a color, but a light, the substance of fire on metal, living sparks without edges. And it looked as if the forest were a spread of light boiling slowly to produce this color, the green rising in small bubbles, the condensed essence of spring. The trees met, blending over the road and the spots of sun on the ground moved with the shifting of the branches, like a conscious caress. Ayn Rand eye hurt spring She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common. Ayn Rand feels-just glasses common Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading? Ayn Rand library reading people Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. Ayn Rand judgment reality art but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons. Ayn Rand glasses eye blue The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through. Ayn Rand silver black sky
