Share & Save
Meaning
Not documented yet.
When It Was Said
Not documented yet.
Who It Was Said To
Not documented yet.
Historical Context
Not documented yet.
Source
Not documented yet.
Original Language & Translation
Originally said in English.
Did They Really Say It?
Not documented yet.
Did You Know?
Not documented yet.
About Ayn Rand
Russian-American writer and philosopher
Ayn Rand, born Alice O'Connor, was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing Objectivism, the philosophical system she named. Her work brought together storytelling and philosophy, and she became closely associated with a body of ideas that she presented as Objectivism. Her writing is known for combining fiction with arguments about reason, individualism, and the role of philosophy in life.
More from Ayn Rand (367 quotes) →Keep reading Ayn Rand
- “Man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the chil…”Ayn Rand
- “The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and…”Ayn Rand
- “As a basic step of self-esteem, learn to treat as the mark of a cannibal any man’s demand for your help. To d…”Ayn Rand
- “I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth withi…”Ayn Rand
Art: more sayings
- “The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art histor…”Margaret Atwood
- “My parents have both done some music stuff. My family was very artist-friendly, so that was encouraging.”Frankie Cosmos
- “Art is very much about making your weaknesses your strength.”Nicolas Winding Refn
READ THE SOURCE
Books by Ayn Rand
Anthem
1995
Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC)
1992
The Fountainhead
2004
We the living
2009
For the New Intellectual
1963