May knowledge come to us! What is this secret our heart has understood and yet will not reveal to us, although it seems to beat as if it were endeavoring to tell it?
He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.
For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.
A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.
Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.
You are so lost to your higher self that you would resent me for my achievements, rather than celebrate them with me, sexually?
Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me wha...
Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
Haven't I? - he thought. Haven't I thought of it since the first time I saw you? Haven't I thought of nothing else for two years? ...He sat motionless, looking at her. He heard the words he had never...
To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.
My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that doesn’t count, i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic principles. Every word, every action, every moment counts. (This is the pat...
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs.
Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.
Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men.
A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.