Ayn Rand — "Reason is the only absolute."
Reason is the only absolute.
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"The only good is the good of the individual."
"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."
"If a man is right, he has no reason to fear the judgment of others. If he is wrong, he has no reason to wish that judgment withheld."
"I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you."
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About Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
Russian-American novelist (The Fountainhead, 1943; Atlas Shrugged, 1957) and Objectivist philosopher whose ethical egoism and capitalism-as-virtue shaped American libertarianism. Closely associated with Nathaniel Branden (her early Objectivist-movement collaborator and lover). For an intellectual contrast, see John Rawls, Harvard political philosopher (1921-2002) — Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971) systematized exactly the egalitarian-redistributive liberalism Rand's Atlas Shrugged was structured to attack. Rand's 'sanction of the victim' and Rawls's 'veil of ignorance' are the two opposite founding intuitions of American political philosophy — selfish-flourishing-as-virtue vs fairness-from-original-position.