There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours
There are no defenders of man’s mind—in the world’s greatest scientific-technological civilization. All that is left is a battle between the mystics of spirit and the mystics of muscle—between men gui...
The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.
The sky is a soggy purple.
The sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.
The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them (pg. 52).
The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial.
The respectable family that supports worthless relatives or covers up their crimes in order to protect the family name(as if the moral stature of one man could be damaged by the actions of another)-th...
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 we...
The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.
The audience looked at him. They felt he had no chance. They could drop the nameless resentment, the sense of insecurity which he aroused in most people. And so, for the first time, they could see him...
That, precisely, is the deadliness of second-handers. They have no concern for facts, ideas, work. They're concerned only with people. They don't ask: 'Is this true?' They ask: 'Is this what others th...
She was twelve years old when she told Eddie Willers that she would run the railroad when they grew up. She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and...
She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.
People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.
One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.
Now I don’t see anything evil in a desire to make money. But money is only a means to some end. If a man wants it for a personal purpose — to invest in his industry, to create, to study, to travel, to...
Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows himself to be dishonest, but others think he’s honest and h...
Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their al...
Miss Taggart, do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own-t...