{"quotes":[{"text":"Man is an end in himself.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["individualism","life","objectivism","philosophy","success"],"id":3603,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["achievement","admiration","atlas-shrugged","inspirational","love","objectivism"],"id":4179,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire. They bare their teeth at you from out of their rat holes,thinking that you take pleasure in letting your brilliance dim them - while you'd give a year of my life to see a flicker of talent anywhere among them. They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear. They have no way of knowing what he feels when surrounded by inferiors - hatred? No, not hatred, but boredom - the terrible, hopeless, draining, paralyzing boredom. Of what account are praise and adulation from men whom you don't respect? Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?'I've felt it all my life,' she said.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["achievement","atlas-shrugged","inspirational","mediocrity","objectivism","second-handers"],"id":10463,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. People [forget] ... How utterly hateful the old pre-humanitarianism world was.","author":"Don Cupitt","tags":["cruelty","divine-command-theory","ethics","hate","humanitarian","justification","morality","objectivism","tyranny","values"],"id":12191,"author_id":"Don+Cupitt"},{"text":"And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["ayn-rand","good","goodness","john-galt","objectivism","truth"],"id":15685,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["objectivism","political"],"id":23032,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action, it dies...It is only the concept of ‘Life’ that makes the concept of 'Value’ possible. It is only to a living entity that things can be good or evil.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["atlas-shrugged","evil","good","john-galt","life","man","mind","morality","morals","objectivism","philosophy","pursuit-of-happiness","reason","think","thinking","values","virtue"],"id":24621,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["happiness","individuality","intelligence","objectivism","schooling","students","teachers"],"id":39941,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do your thinking—that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["atlas-shrugged","evil","good","happiness","independence","john-galt","life","man","mind","morality","morals","objectivism","pain","philosophy","pursuit-of-happiness","rational","reason","think","thinking","truth","values","virtue","wisdom"],"id":54317,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["achieve","achievers","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","business","business","corporate","corporate-world","hobby","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","love","lover","lovers","meeting","meetings","metaphysics","motivation","motivational","motivational","objective","objectivism","objectivity","paint","painters","painting","philosophical","philosophy","photographer","photographs","photography","photography","picture","pictures","practical","practicality","practice","pragmatic","pragmatism","romeo","tend-to","tend-to-be","wallpaper","wisdom","wisdom","works"],"id":82013,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":89,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}