Man’s basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know. Irrationality is the rejection of man’s means of survival and, therefore, a commitment to a course of blind destruction; that which is anti-mind, is anti-life.
― The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand
To say ’I love you’ one must know first how to say the ’I.’
― The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves-or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
― Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
I am, therefore I'll think.
