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Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.
– Ayn Rand

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  1. …man’s life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum, like a journey… – Ayn Rand
  2. Whenever you smile, whenever you care, whenever you love, whenever you share, your spirit will dance with joy because happiness is there. – Debasish Mridha
  3. The source of work? Man’s mind…man’s reasoning mind. – Ayn Rand
  4. For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor. – Ayn Rand
  5. Man has the power to act as his own destroyer-”and that is the way he has acted through most of his history. – Ayn Rand
  6. A man’s spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego. – Ayn Rand
  7. I confess that I have lived, so I confess that I have sinned. – Vlgame
  8. The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one. – Ayn Rand
  9. I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him. – Ayn Rand
  10. He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it. – Ayn Rand
  11. Racism negates two aspects of man’s life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination. – Ayn Rand
  12. An artist reveals his naked soul in his work – and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it. – Ayn Rand
  13. …there can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons for his own murderers. – Ayn Rand
  14. Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words. – Ayn Rand
  15. To be free, a man must be free from his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else. – Ayn Rand
  16. A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards…in order to appeal to the irrationality, dishonesty or stupidity of others. – Ayn Rand
  17. It takes two to make a very great career: the man who is great, and the man–almost rarer–who is great enough to see greatness and say so. – Ayn Rand
  18. She found a dark satisfaction in pain-”because that pain came from him. – Ayn Rand
  19. The anti-mind is the anti-life. – Ayn Rand
  20. Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it. Is this the reason why you call it evil? – Ayn Rand
  21. Words are a lens to focus one’s mind. – Ayn Rand
  22. Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified. – Kathy Acker
  23. The goal of libertarianism is not to permit people to be free, but to make them realize that they don’t need anyone’s permission to be free. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
  24. Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake : he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost. – Ayn Rand
  25. …there was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence. – Ayn Rand
  26. ..it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all. – Ayn Rand
  27. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone. – Ayn Rand
  28. I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. – Booker T Washington
  29. Man boasts of his nobility, his ideals, and his progress. Man’s goal is imitation, not redemption. – Billy Graham
  30. Nature is powerful and beautiful,Nature is destructive and creative,Nature is amazing and wonderful,Nature is loving and graceful. – Debasish Mridha
  31. A house can have integrity, just like a person,’ said Roark, ‘and just as seldom. – Ayn Rand
  32. When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you -“ you know your nation is doomed. – Ayn Rand
  33. My real soul…? It’s real only when it’s independent… – Ayn Rand
  34. Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification. – Ayn Rand
  35. Observe the ugly mess which most men make of their sex lives-”and observe the mess of contradictions which they hold as their moral philosophy. – Ayn Rand
  36. Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. – Ayn Rand
  37. You are an unusual, brilliant child who has not seen enough of life to grasp the full measure of human stupidity. – Ayn Rand
  38. And, after all, you’ve got to live.--œNot that way,- said Roark. – Ayn Rand
  39. You are so lost to your higher self that you would resent me for my achievements, rather than celebrate them with me, sexually? – Ayn Rand
  40. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities. – Ayn Rand

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