Popular Quotes

Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.

- Ayn Rand | America and Americans Quotes

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

- Ayn Rand | Character and Personality Quotes

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle-class is its future.

- Ayn Rand | The Future Quotes

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.

- Ayn Rand | Nature Quotes

What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.

- Ayn Rand | Thinking and Thought Quotes

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 precondition of his productive work - pride is the result.

- Ayn Rand | Work Quotes

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

- Ayn Rand | Happiness Quotes

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

- Ayn Rand | Happiness Quotes

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.

- Ayn Rand | Positive Quotes

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

- Ayn Rand | Positive Quotes

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

- Ayn Rand | Role Models Quotes

God forgives those who invent what they need.

- Ayn Rand | Opportunities Quotes

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

- Ayn Rand | Failures and Mistakes Quotes