More from Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
- A thing is not high if one can reach it; it is not great if one can reason about it; it is not deep if one can see its bottom.
- He loved the wheel of a car as he loved his desk in the office of the Banner: both gave him the same sense of a dangerous monster let loose under the expert direction of his fingers.
- One did not stress total ignorance of a subject if one were in total ignorance of it.
- There was a time when you wouldn’t have admitted that there was anything you couldn’t get.
- We are all brothers under the skin-and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
Last reviewed 2026-07-06