Author Detail for Ayn Rand (6 Quotes)

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1 Ayn Rand Science Exploration Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
2 Ayn Rand Art Art One of the cardinal pleasures of life is offered to man by works of art. Art, at its highest potential, as the projection of things as they might and ought to be, can provide man with an invaluable emotional fuel. But, again, the kind of art works one responds to, depends on one's deepest values and premises.
3 Ayn Rand Politics Governement If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
4 Ayn Rand Philosophy Value Since a value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep, and the amount of possible action is limited by the duration of one’s lifespan, it is a part of one’s life that one invests in everything one values. The years, months, days or hours of thought, of interest, of action devoted to a value are the currency with which one pays for the enjoyment one receives from it.
5 Ayn Rand Philosophy Reason In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade the effort. But you are not free to escape from your nature, from the fact that reason is your means of survival.
6 Ayn Rand Art Modern Art Modern art is an attempt to disintegrate man’s consciousness and reduce it to a pre-conceptual level; A breaking of concepts into mere sensations. Disintegration is the keynote and goal of modern art. The disintegration of man’s conceptual faculty and the retrogression of an adult mind to the state of an infant. To reduce man’s consciousness to the level of sensation with no capacity to integrate them is the intention behind the reducing of language to grunts, of literature to moods, of painting to smears, of sculpture to slabs, of music to noise.