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) →More quotes by Ayn Rand
- “That's your cruelty, that's what's mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you'd give him a jo…”Ayn Rand
- “People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that…”Ayn Rand
- “There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any h…”Ayn Rand
- “Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.”Ayn Rand
More Identity quotes
- “Though blessed with the enviable properties of a mink coat—graceful, unreasonable, and impractical no matter…”Marisha Pessl
- “It is particularly pleasing to see how purely basic research, originally aimed at testing the genetic identit…”John Gurdon
- “There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There a…”Elizabeth Gilbert
Explore Existence
- “That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born out of it,…”Dean Koontz
- “They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past and go i…”Jack Kerouac
- “The DreamLord ByronOur life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world,A boundary between the things misnamedDeath…”George Gordon Byron
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