Ayn Rand Quotes

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

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 from the realm of reality.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it.

I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.

Logic is no answer to passion.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.

When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.

Everything is reason. If you don't have reason, you have nothing.

The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.

Indu'd With sanctity of reason.