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

“A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.”

“The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one.”

“To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.”

“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.”

“America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.”

“The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do?”

“Whatever I learned,”

“This is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find;”

“They can very well try to find each other; they will never find anything but parodic images, and they will fall asleep as empty as mirrors.”

“The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?”

“Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.”