Fountainhead Quotes

“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“There's so much nonsense about human inconstancy and the transience of all emotions. I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.”
― Ayn Rand

“How did you know what's been killing me? Slowly, for years, driving me to hate people when I don't want to hate... Have you felt it, too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you--except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them, nothing, not even a sound they can recognize. You mean, you want to hear? You want to know what I do and why I do it, you want to know what I think? It's not boring to you? It's important?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“I don't like museums, I like labs.”
― Amit Kalantri

“A busy mind is full of thoughts, a blissful mind is full of ideas.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“His life was crowded , public and impersonal as a city square. The friend of humanity had no single private friend. People came to him; he came close to no one. He accepted all. His affection was golden, smooth and even, like a great expanse of sand; there was no wind of discrimination to raise dunes; the sands lay still and the sun stood high.
---Toohey.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“A conclusive mind cannot be a creative mind.”
― amit kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Nothing can be reasonable or beautiful unless it's made by one central idea, and the idea sets every detail.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead. Centennial Edition. This is Not the 3 Volume Set