Philosophical Reflections on Growth, Beauty, and Capitalism by Ayn Rand
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What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can’t stand still. It must grow or perish.
- Ayn Rand
If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.
- Ayn Rand
Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.
- Ayn Rand
A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack.
- Ayn Rand
The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral.
- Ayn Rand
Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted.
- Ayn Rand
There is no such dichotomy as ‘human rights’ versus ‘property rights.’ No human rights can exist without property rights.
- Ayn Rand
Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.