And now we look upon the earth and sky. This spread of naked rock and peaks and moonlight is like a world ready to be born, a world that waits. It seems to us it asks a sign from us, a spark, a first...
And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should we all perish in battle. The word which can never di...
An Individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices himself to others nor sacrifices others to himself; he deals with men as a trader - not as a looter; as...
A truly selfish man cannot be affected by the approval of others. He doesn’t need it.
A thing is not high if one can reach it; it is not great if one can reason it; it is not deep if one can see its bottom.
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one wo...
An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.
He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.
[Dean] My dear fellow, who will let you?[Roark] That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?
Your subconscious is like a computer—more complex a computer than men can build—and its main function is the integration of your ideas. Who programs it? Your conscious mind. If you default, if you don...
You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed.
You still love me - even if there's one expression of it that you will always feel and want, but will not give me no longer. I'm still what I was, and you'll always see it, and you'll always grant me...
You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken, trampled, dominated, because that’s the impossible, the inconceivable for you in your relations with peo...
You don't care what others think - which might be understandable. But you don't care even to make them think as you do?No.But that's...that's monstrous.Is it? Probably. I couldn't say.
You could tell them why they should hire you so very much better than I could. But they won't listen to you and they'll listen to me. Because I'm the middleman. The shortest distance between two point...
Why did you decide to be an architect?I didn't know it then. But it's because I've never believed in God.Come on, talk sense.Because I love this earth. That's all I love. I don't like the shape of thi...
When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see tha...
When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and he wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of lookin...
When a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law, men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims, then money becomes its creators' avenger. Such looters believe it safe to r...
When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love.