Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves.
We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wre...
You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.
You can fake virtue for an audience. You can’t fake it in your own eyes.
Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken, tr...
When man discovered how to make fire to keep himself warm, his need of thought and effort was not ended; when he discovered how to fashion a bow and arrow, his need of thought and effort was not ended...
There was a great satisfaction to be found in the food which we need and obtain by our own hand.
There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men (pg. 101).
There is no necessity for pain-why, then, is the worst pain reserved for those who will not accept its necessity?
There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.
Then she remembered.
The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.
The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.
The man who discovers new knowledge is the permanent benefactor of humanity.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
The sky is a soggy purple.
John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains—and he withdrew his fire—until th...