1,908 Quotes by Ayn Rand

There is noroom for the love of others within the tight, crowded miser’s hole of a privateego. Be empty in order to be filled. ’He that loveth his life shall lose it; andhe that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

They said you were hard and cold and unfeeling.”“But it’s true...I am, in the sense they mean—only have they ever told you in just what sense they mean it?""What did they mean about you?”“Whenever anyone accuses some person of being ‘unfeeling,’ he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that .‘to feel’ is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.

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

You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.