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Jane Eyre
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Each picture told a story; mysterious often to my undeveloped understanding and imperfect feelings, yet ever profoundly interesting:
“Education is not acquiring a stock of ready-made ideas, images, sentiments, beliefs and so forth; it is learning to look, to listen, to think, to feel, to imagine, to believe, to understand, to choose and to wish.”
― VOICE OF LIBERAL LEARNING, THE
― VOICE OF LIBERAL LEARNING, THE
“…existence is to all men a thing to be chosen and loved, and that we exist by virtue of activity (i.e. by living and acting), and that the handiwork is in a sense, the producer in activity; he loves his handiwork, therefore, because he loves existence.”
― The Nicomachean Ethics
― The Nicomachean Ethics
“All my life I’ve had doubts about who I am, where I belonged. Now I’m like the arrow that springs from the bow. No hesitation, no doubts. The path is clear.”
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“…of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man’s highest potential and strive to actualize it. . . . [Man-worshipers are] those dedicated to the exaltation of man’s self-esteem and the sacredness of his happiness on earth.”
― The Objectivist: 1966-1971
― The Objectivist: 1966-1971
Ayn Rand
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Every book by Ayn Rand published in her lifetime is still in print, and hundreds of thousands of copies are sold each year, so far totaling more than ...more
Ayn Rand Institute
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The Ayn Rand Institute (ARI), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in Irvine, California, works to introduce young people to Ayn Rand’s no ...more
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