Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. Things as they are are things a...
This is said to civilized men who are to venture into countries where sacred cows are fed, while children are left to starve - where female infants are killed or abandoned by the roadside- where men g...
The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popul...
The only thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself. My work done my way. A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That’s the only way I function. That’s all...
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
The effort he demanded of his employees was hard to perform; the effort of himself was hard to believe.
The businessman who wishes to gain a market by throttling a superior competitor, the worker who wants a share of his employer's wealth, the artist who envies a rival's higher talent - they're all wish...
Sometimes after dinner, he would walk into the woods that began behind the house. He would stretch down on the ground on his stomach, his elbows, planted before him, his hands propping his chin and he...
She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one anoth...
Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.
Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolut...
Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: I will it!
It's only a matter of getting through the next few moments, she thought: take care of the next few moments, and then the next, a few at a time, and after a while it will be easier; you'll get over it,...
It was useless to argue, she thought, and to wonder about people who would neither refute an argument nor accept it.
I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.
He watched the pain's unsummoned appearance with a cold, detached curiosity; he said to himself: Well, here it is again. He waited to see how long it would last. It gave him a strange, hard pleasure t...
Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.
At a time like this, we can't afford the luxury of thinking!
P.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not...