Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

Great men can't be ruled.

i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove it, that's fine. but you don't tell me you can't know that there isn't. i would say yes i know there isn't because i have been given no evidence.

Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it.

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.