Ayn Rand Quotes to Inspire Individualism and Objectivism

We didn't really have to take everything so seriously.

The beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.

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

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.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

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

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.

So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another—their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun

Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.