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Ayn Rand

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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.


— Ayn Rand


#men

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.


— Ayn Rand


#inspirational

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.


— Ayn Rand


#inspirational #salvation #inspirational

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.


— Ayn Rand


#objectivism #philosophy #taggart #acting

Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.


— Ayn Rand


#saints #insult

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.


— Ayn Rand


#enemy

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.


— Ayn Rand


#men-and-women #life

Who is John Galt?


— Ayn Rand


#galt #objectivism #opening-lines #philosophy #taggart

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.


— Ayn Rand


#failure

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.


— Ayn Rand


#enjoy #live #morality #purpose #suffer






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In 1941 Paramount Pictures produced a movie version of the play. The novel centers on an uncompromising young architect named Howard Roark and his struggle against what Rand described as "second-handers"—those who attempt to live through others placing others above self. Afterward Ayn Rand turned to nonfiction to promote her philosophy publishing her own magazines and releasing several collections of essays until her death in 1982.

Ayn Rand (pron. In politics Ayn Rand condemned the initiation of force as immoral and opposed collectivism and statism as well as anarchism instead supporting a minarchist limited government and laissez-faire capitalism which Ayn Rand believed was the only social system that protected individual rights.

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