By Ayn Rand
If you think you get enough, then wait until karma hits its last shot.
When you create reality through the eyes of others, you build Karma which did not suppose to be yours.
Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
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.
I’ve wanted to want it. I should think it would be exciting to become a dissolute woman.
I am, therefore I’ll think.
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man – the function of his reasoning mind.
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.
Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.
When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.
I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.
The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.
Our aim may be as high as the endless sky, but we should have a resolve in our minds to walk ahead, hand-in-hand for victory will be ours.
We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.
So the problem is not so much to see what nobody has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet thought concerning that which everybody sees.
Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.
