Top Objectivism Quotes

Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.

In meetings philosophy might work,on the field practicality works.

Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.

Who is John Galt?

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do your thinking—that the vilest form of self-abaseme...

Do you know the hallmark of a 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 - they have no in...

Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders’ attempt to evade the fact that A is A. All the secret evil you dread to fa...

You want to know what's wrong with the world? Dad paused. It's this alienation that permeates every aspect of humanity.

Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.

I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I rega...

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it, which is thinking—that the mind is on...

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

Happiness is the successful state of life, pain is an agent of death. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. A morality that dares to tell you to...

A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

If you're rational you don't get to believe whatever you want to believe.

Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and...

Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action, it dies...It is only the concept of ‘Life’ that makes the concept of 'Value’ possible. It is only t...