"The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.
The anti-mind is the anti-life.
More Ayn Rand quotes
"A desire to choose the hardest might be a confession of weakness in itself.
"I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.
"To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you u...
"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they al...
"The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement...
"Your life, your achievement, your happiness, your person are of paramount importance. Live up to your highest vision of yourself no matter what the ci...
"...the literary manifestation of the mind-body dichotomy that dominates today's culture: the split between the "serious" and the "entertaining" - the ...
"Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such disc...
"To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self-esteem, is capable of love—because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consi...
"Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
"The practical implementation of friendship, affection and love consists of incorporating the welfare (the rational welfare) of the person involved int...
"A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards...in order to appeal to the irrationality, dishonesty or stupidity of others.
"Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.
"One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one see...