“One loses everything when one loses one’s sense of humor.”
Ayn Rand (verified)
The Fountainhead (Primary source)
Architect Howard Roark refuses to compromise his innovative designs for conventional styles, battling the architectural establishment and society’s pressure to conform. The novel champions individual creativity and integrity against collectivist mediocrity and social conformity.
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“Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense. An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.
— Ayn Rand (verified)“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“I don’t intend to build in order to have clients. I intend to have clients in order to build.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (verified, secondary source)“Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
— Albert Einstein (verified)“There’s no one thing that’s true. It’s all true.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“You may be too cunning for one, but not for all.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)