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.
Ayn Rand
- Author
- Ayn Rand
- Year
- 1943
- Genre
- philosophical novel
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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.
Ayn Rand
One did not stress total ignorance of a subject if one were in total ignorance of it.
Ayn Rand
There was a time when you wouldn’t have admitted that there was anything you couldn’t get.
Ayn Rand
We are all brothers under the skin-and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
Ayn Rand