Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.
Ayn RandRemember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.
Ayn RandA reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to know by what means that result was achieved-but it is my job to know.
Ayn RandAquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.
Ayn RandCreation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.
Ayn Rand