Sydney

“Love is a response to values. It is with a person’s sense of life that one falls in love—with that essential sum, that fundamental stand or way of facing existence, which is the essence of a personality.”
― Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto

“It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.”
― Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto

“The course of mankind's progress is not a straight, automatic line, but a tortuous struggle, with long detours or relapses into the stagnant night of the irrational. Mankind moves forward by the grace of those human bridges who are able to grasp and transmit, across years or centuries, the achievements men had reached--and to carry them further. Thomas Aquinas is one illustrious example: he was the bridge between Aristotle and the Renaissance, spanning the infamous detour of the Dark and Middle Ages.”
― Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto

“There are two aspects of man’s existence which are the special province and expression of his sense of life: love and art.”
― Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto