“You’re the most egotistical and the kindest man I know. And that doesn’t make sense.”
“Maybe the concepts don’t make sense. Maybe they don’t mean what people have been taught to think they mean.”
― The Fountainhead
“Maybe the concepts don’t make sense. Maybe they don’t mean what people have been taught to think they mean.”
― The Fountainhead
“...she had nothing to hide from him, nothing to keep unstated, everything was granted, answered, found.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“All that which proceeds from man’s independent ego is good. All that which proceeds from man’s dependence upon men is evil.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.”
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