Philosophy Quote by Ayn Rand — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

“I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.”

“Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.”

“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-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.”

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”

“The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”

“Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.”

“Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath,”

“Nu mai trăim un prezent placid, ci suntem prinși cu toții în efortul de a ne pregăti permanent pentru viitor.”

“It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.”