Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
Ayn Randwas a Russian-born American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful in America, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 February 1905
CitySaint Petersburg, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated
She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.
A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.
Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.
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 understand why that's much harder?
Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?
Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.
One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.
The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.