Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious Ayn Rand More Quotes by Ayn Rand More Quotes From Ayn Rand An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind. Ayn Rand politicalmenphilosophy Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind. Ayn Rand acceptancesuccessinspirational People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk. Ayn Rand thrivepeoplelooks What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur. Ayn Rand delusions-of-grandeurchemicalsmen the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but because it hurts you. Anger is a form of recognition. It amounts to admitting that those people are important to you and that they have the power to hurt you. Actually, they haven't. Ayn Rand angerhurtpeople To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. Ayn Rand realpowerneeds ...If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude -- and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so large a scale -- would make them pause and check their statist premises. Instead, blind to everything but their hatred for capitalism, they are now asserting that 'poverty breeds wars' ... But the question is: What breeds poverty? If you look a the world of today and if you look back at history, you will see the answer: the degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity. Ayn Rand goalwarcountry Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind. Ayn Rand erasmayway Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are you in an incomprehensible chaos, a realm of inexplicable miracles, an unpredictable, unknowable flux, which your mind is impotent to grasp? The nature of your actions - and of your ambition - will be different, according to which set of answers you come to accept. Ayn Rand miracleambitionlaw Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights; it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights, a government is man's deadliest enemy. It is not as protection against private actions, but against governmental actions that the Bill of Rights was written. Ayn Rand rightsmenenemy To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense. Ayn Rand demandnaturedoe Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it. Ayn Rand giving-upstrugglewant 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 . . . Ayn Rand treehandslooks A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Ayn Rand toolsfeelingsmen One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or “prove”) existence as such, or consciousness as such. These are irreducible primaries. (An attempt to “prove” them is self-contradict ory: it is an attempt to “prove” existence by means of nonexistence, and consciousness by means of unconsciousness .) Ayn Rand studyselfmean Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Ayn Rand survivalmindmen You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated Ayn Rand fountain-headfountainheadencounters I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place. Ayn Rand feelingsfirsts She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected. Ayn Rand expectedlonelinessworld Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration. Ayn Rand linesdefensereligion
