It is a sin to write this.
It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, it's not really pain.
It doesn't say much. Only Howard Roark, Architect. But it's like those mottoes men carved over the entrance of a castle and died for. It's a challenge in the face of something so vast and so dark, tha...
Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. That presupposes the ability to think. Thinking is something one doesn’t borrow or pawn.
In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.
If life is a process of self-sustaining action, then this is the distinctly human mode of action and survival: to think--to produce--to meet the challenges of existence by a never-ending effort and in...
I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my mills, my Metal, my hours at a desk, at a furnace, in a laboratory, in an ore mine...
I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know my work is done by me. But I can pass that up. I like to have tenants made happy by my work. But that...
I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.
Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted.
He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete...
He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. THe lake lay far below him. A frozen explosion of granite burst in flight to the sky over motionless water. The water seemed immovable, the stone- flowing. The s...
Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.
Failing to have a cake after one has eaten it, is not a compromise.
Every loneliness is a pinnacle
Every achievement of man is a value in itself, but it is also a stepping-stone to greater achievements and values. Life is growth; not to move forward, is to fall backward; life remains life, only so...
Ethics is not a mystic fantasy--nor a social convention--nor a dispensable, subjective luxury...Ethics is an objective necessity of man's survival--not by the grace of the supernatural nor of your nei...