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
Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.
In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.
The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves.
Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.
Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." Roark: "But I don't think of you.
"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"
I am a man who does not exist for others.
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.
Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".
One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.
Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.