AUTHOR | AYN RAND
Ayn Rand | Writer
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Ayn Rand was a Russian-born American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, Rand moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful in America, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead.
In 1957, she published her best-known work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own magazines and releasing several collections of essays until her death in 1982. Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge, and rejected faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism, and rejected altruism. In politics, she condemned the initiation of force as immoral, and opposed collectivism and statism as
Born: 1905-02-02
Born in: St. Petersburg, Russia
Died: 1982-03-06
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All Quotes from the Author Ayn Rand 153
“ Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the fi...
“ People think that a liar gains a victory over his vi...
“ In art, and in literature, the end and the means, or...
“ Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driv...
“ It does take an exceptional mind and a still more ex...
“ It seemed natural; natural to the moment’s peculiar ...
“ Andrei, did you like the opera?''Not particularly.''...
“ To the extent to which a man is rational, life is th...
“ A rational process is a moral process. You may make ...
“ Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be s...
“ You know, I think that only if one feels immensely i...
“ And suddenly that we were laughing out loud, laughin...
“ Man has no automatic code of survival. His particula...
“ He’s not really struggling even for material wealth,...
“ Man has been called a rational being, but rationalit...
“ Reason is your means of survival – so that for you, ...