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May. 16th, 2015 11:09 pm"Why is everything twisted out of all sense to fit everything else?
Keating leaned back with a sense of warmth and well-being. He liked this book. It had made the routine of his Sunday morning breakfast a profound spiritual experience; he was certain that it was profound, because he didn’t understand it.
Though how in hell one passes judgment on a man without considering the content of his brain is more than I’ll ever understand.
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. That presupposes the ability to think. Thinking is something one doesn’t borrow or pawn.
“Don’t worry. They’re all against me. But I have one advantage: they don’t know what they want. I do.”
If you married me now, I would become your whole existence. But I would not want you then. You would not want yourself — and so you would not love me long. To say ‘I love you’ one must know first how to say the ‘I.’
What you feel in the presence of a thing you admire is just one word — 'Yes.’ The affirmation, the acceptance, the sign of admittance. And that 'Yes’ is more than an answer to one thing, it’s a kind of 'Amen’ to life, to the earth that holds this thing, to the thought that created it, to yourself for being able to see it. But the ability to say 'Yes’ or 'No’ is the essence of all ownership. It’s your ownership of your own ego. Your soul, if you wish. Your soul has a single basic function — the act of valuing. 'Yes’ or 'No,’ 'I wish’ or 'I do not wish.’ You can’t say 'Yes’ without saying 'I.’ There’s no affirmation without the one who affirms. In this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours.
Don’t bother to examine a folly — ask yourself only what it accomplishes."
Ayn Rand “The Fountained”
Keating leaned back with a sense of warmth and well-being. He liked this book. It had made the routine of his Sunday morning breakfast a profound spiritual experience; he was certain that it was profound, because he didn’t understand it.
Though how in hell one passes judgment on a man without considering the content of his brain is more than I’ll ever understand.
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. That presupposes the ability to think. Thinking is something one doesn’t borrow or pawn.
“Don’t worry. They’re all against me. But I have one advantage: they don’t know what they want. I do.”
If you married me now, I would become your whole existence. But I would not want you then. You would not want yourself — and so you would not love me long. To say ‘I love you’ one must know first how to say the ‘I.’
What you feel in the presence of a thing you admire is just one word — 'Yes.’ The affirmation, the acceptance, the sign of admittance. And that 'Yes’ is more than an answer to one thing, it’s a kind of 'Amen’ to life, to the earth that holds this thing, to the thought that created it, to yourself for being able to see it. But the ability to say 'Yes’ or 'No’ is the essence of all ownership. It’s your ownership of your own ego. Your soul, if you wish. Your soul has a single basic function — the act of valuing. 'Yes’ or 'No,’ 'I wish’ or 'I do not wish.’ You can’t say 'Yes’ without saying 'I.’ There’s no affirmation without the one who affirms. In this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours.
Don’t bother to examine a folly — ask yourself only what it accomplishes."
Ayn Rand “The Fountained”
