The Passion of Ayn Rand Quotes

“Metaphysics—objective reality; Epistemology—reason; Ethics—self-interest; Politics—capitalism.”
― Barbara Branden, The Passion of Ayn Rand

“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”
― Barbara Branden, The Passion of Ayn Rand

“For Ayn had built up a comprehensive systematic philosophy, which she calls Objectivism, and which, once you accept its first premises, is the most closely reasoned, rigorously logical and consistently interlocking world view and explanation since the great synthesis of Thomas Aquinas.”
― Barbara Branden, The Passion of Ayn Rand

“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
― Barbara Branden, The Passion of Ayn Rand

“A plot-structure is a series of integrated, logically connected events, moved by a central purpose, leading to the resolution of a climax.”
― Barbara Branden, The Passion of Ayn Rand