All Quotes By Tag: Philosophy

“Who is John Galt?”

“I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.”

“Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.”

“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”

“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage”

“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”

“Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.”

“The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible”

“He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.”

“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”

“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.”

“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”

“If you reveal your secrets to the wind,you should not blame the wind forrevealing them to the trees.”

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

“In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill… we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”