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“When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.”
Ayn Rand
“God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.”
Ayn Rand
“A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.”
Ayn Rand
“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.”
Ayn Rand
“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.”
Ayn Rand
“Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.”
Ayn Rand
“Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.”
Ayn Rand
“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.”
Ayn Rand
“Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.”
Ayn Rand
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“I may be no better, but at least I am different.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“God made me and broke the mold.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
