122 Quotes About Objectivism

Настоящего эгоиста не может затронуть одобрение других. Он не нуждается в нём.

Чтобы сделать что-то для людей, нужно быть в состоянии это сделать. А для этого надо любить само дело, а не второстепенные последствия. Дело, а не людей.

Only Marxists," Dr. Iggy concluded, opening the door to usher Joe into the chapel room, "stillbelieve in an objective history. Marxists and a few disciples of Ayn Rand.

He tried to explain and to convince. He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words sounded as if they were hitting a vacuum. There was no such person as Mrs. Wayne Wilmot; there was only a shell containing the opinions of her friends, the picture postcards she had seen, the novels of country squires she had read; it was this that he had to address, this immateriality which could not hear him or answer, deaf and impersonal like a wad of cotton.

It is only in the realm of pure science that truth is an absolute criterion. When we deal with applied science, with technology—we deal with people. And when we deal with people, considerations other than truth enter the question.

Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.

You want to know what's wrong with the world?" Dad paused. "It's this alienation that permeates every aspect of humanity.

A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.

Eye-rolling is not exactly the pinnacle of socratic investigation.