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Ayn Rand Inspirational Quotes (519)

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A free mind and a free market are corollaries.
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Nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatever.
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You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil, what will give you joy or pain, what you will love or hate, desire or fear, depends on your standard of value.
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The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.
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To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.
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Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.
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whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.
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Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
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I think, therefore I'll think.
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Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom a free mind and a free market are corollaries.
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Happiness is not something you have in your hands it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies by division. Happiness is that peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
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I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing.
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Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values, and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.
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I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.
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but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.
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Live a life as a monument to your soul.
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Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.
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Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.
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Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
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Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth the irrational.
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My dear fellow, who will let you? That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?
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Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.
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If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.
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There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.
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