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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the...
Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted dar...
Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.
The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.
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...
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ears gives its song to the world. It is my mind which thinks, and the judg...
I refuse to apologize for my ability—I refuse to apologize for my success—I refuse to apologize for my money.
He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.
Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-con...
Did you really think we want those laws observed? said Dr. Ferris. We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power an...
At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke the...
A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.
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.
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...
Beauty is a sense of harmony.
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.