La fonte meravigliosa
Ayn Rand frasi celebri
La rivolta di Atlante
da Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life di Alan Paxton, Gibbs Smith, Layton 1998
da The Ayn Rand Lexicon, New American Library, New York 1991
La virtù dell'egoismo
Ayn Rand Frasi e Citazioni
La virtù dell'egoismo
da The Voice of Reason, New York 1989
La virtù dell'egoismo
La virtù dell'egoismo
La virtù dell'egoismo
Ayn Rand: Frasi in inglese
“What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.”
Origine: Atlas Shrugged
“But I don't think of you.
(Howard Roark)”
Origine: The Fountainhead
“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.”
Origine: The Fountainhead
“It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.”
Origine: Atlas Shrugged
Origine: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
“Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.”
Origine: The Fountainhead
“In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.”
Origine: Atlas Shrugged
“One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.”
Origine: The Fountainhead
“Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.”
Origine: Atlas Shrugged
“But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.”
Origine: Atlas Shrugged
“I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.”
Origine: The Fountainhead
“Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's individual value-judgments.”
Origine: The Romantic Manifesto (1969), Chapter 1 ("The Psycho-Epistemology of Art")
Origine: The Fountainhead
“The most depraved type of human being… (is) the man without a purpose.”
Variante: Fransisco, what's the most depraved type of human being?
-The man without purpose.
Origine: Atlas Shrugged
“Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.”
Origine: Atlas Shrugged
“The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”
Origine: Atlas Shrugged
“It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.”
Origine: Atlas Shrugged