“The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“An individual can be hurt in countless ways by other men's irrationality, dishonesty, injustice. Above all, he can be disappointed, perhaps grievously, by the vices of a person he had once trusted or loved. But as long as his property is not expropriated and he remains unmolested physically, the damage he sustains is essentially spiritual, not physical; in such a case, the victim alone has the power and the responsibility of healing his wounds. He remains free: free to think, to learn from his experiences, to look elsewhere for human relationships; he remains free to start afresh and to pursue his happiness.”
― Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
― Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
“A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
Classics and the Western Canon
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