“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?” [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
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Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;[a] February 2, [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (/aɪn/), was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She wrote a play that opened on Broadway in 1935. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead. In 1957, Rand published her best-known work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward, until her death in 1982, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own periodicals and releasing several collections of essays. Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge; she rejected faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism and rejected altruism. In politics, she condemned the initiation of force as immoral[5][6] and opposed collectivism, statism, and anarchism. Instead, she supported laissez-faire capitalism, which she defined as the system based on recognizing individual rights, including property rights. Although Rand opposed libertarianism, which she viewed as anarchism, she is often associated with the modern libertarian movement. In art, Rand promoted romantic realism. She was sharply critical of most philosophers and philosophical traditions known to her, except for Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and classical liberals. Rand's fiction received mixed reviews from literary critics.[ Although academic interest in her ideas has grown since her death, academic philosophers have generally ignored or rejected her philosophy because of her polemical approach and lack of methodological rigor.[4] Her writings have influenced some libertarians and conservatives politically. The Objectivist movement attempts to spread her ideas, both to the public and in academic settings
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“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?” [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
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“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustrat...”
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“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
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“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”
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“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
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“The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.”
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”
“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”
“To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.”
“Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.”
“The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.”
“Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the preconditio...”
“Haven't I? - he thought. Haven't I thought of it since the first time I saw you? Haven't I thought of nothing else for two years? ...He sat motionless, looking at her. He heard the words he...”
“I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference”
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“Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence,...”
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“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?”
“I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I saw you - and the only thing I'm ashamed of is that I did not know it. I did not know why, f...”
“Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them...”
“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 wh...”