Ayn Rand citáty

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„Milovat znamená dělat výjimky. Kdybys někoho milovala, přála by sis, aby tě zlomil, ponížil, podřídil si tě, ovládal tě, protože to je přesně to, co je pro tebe ve vztahu ke komukoli nepřípustné a nepředstavitelné. To by byl jediný dar, ta veliká výjimka, kterou bys mohla nabídnout muži, jehož bys milovala. Přestože by to pro tebe nebylo vůbec lehké.“

„Otázkou není, kdo mi to dovolí. Otázkou je, kdo mi v tom zabrání.“

„Pravda není pro každého, ale jen pro ty, kteří ji hledají .“

„Neexistují zlé myšlenky kromě jediné: odmítání myslet.“

„Zlo vyžaduje potrestání oběti.“

„Každá forma štěstí je soukromá. Naše největší okamžiky jsou osobní, vycházejí z nás a nikdo se jich nemá dotýkat.“

„Identifikujte dominantní filosofii ve společnosti a můžete předvídat její budoucnost.“

“But I don't think of you.

(Howard Roark)”

“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.”

“It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.”

“I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.”

“Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.”

“Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building, when and if you are an architect?”
“Yes.”
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”

“Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.”

“In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.”

“One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.”

“I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.”

“Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.”

“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves-or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.”

“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.”

“Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.”

“But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.”

“Never ask people about your work.”

“He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.”

“I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.”

“She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.”

“What is morality, she asked.
Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.”

“Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's individual value-judgments.”

“The most depraved type of human being… (is) the man without a purpose.”

“It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.”

“Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.”

“Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?”

“It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.”

“The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”

“Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".”

“It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.”