Ayn Rand citáty

strana 6

„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.“

“A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.”

“She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.”

“We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they?”

“Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.”

“Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.”

“I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.”

“This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before…The fortune of my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of spirit.”

“There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.”

“Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.”

“She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.”

“This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.”

“Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.”

“If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?”

“Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?”

“Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.”

“Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves.”

“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.”

“I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.”

“Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!”

“I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”

“There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.”

“The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.”

“It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.”

“One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes”

“People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.”

“Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.”

“There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours”

“It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.”

“Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death.”