“Have you felt it, too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you—except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them, nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.”
Ayn Rand
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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“Who will let you? That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“I don’t intend to build in order to have clients. I intend to have clients in order to build.”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“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 Primary source“Every gift we accept is a tie. Sometimes, one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”
— Albert Einstein Secondary source“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Disputed“If you would be loved, love and be lovable.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Love the day.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary sourceFriendship Alone Loneliness Solitude