An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature..

To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started..

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence..

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money.

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt..

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate….

My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of them. Both are greater now. ….

About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for a….

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history..

Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!.

Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you cons….

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them..

Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest..

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought..

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself fro….

The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning mind..

It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will betray it. It….

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue..

Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny..

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just..

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind..