Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand (1905-1982), also Alice O'Connor, born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, was a Russian-born US writer, novelist, screenwriter, and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism, and therefore also known as objectivist. She was also known as anti-collectivist and pro-capitalist. Her famous novels include The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. She advocated self-actualization.Wisdom & Quotes
- Man's unique reward... is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
- It is not advisable... to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
- My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. 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.
- To achieve ... you have to know what you're doing and that's real power.
- The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word : EGO.
- Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
- Great men can't be ruled.
- Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.
- Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.
Frank Marshall Davis