Ayn Rand Quotes

All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.

I think irrationality is one of the scariest things in the world.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

There is no greater monster than reason.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

I think everybody's nuts.

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.

You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.

Drama starts where logic ends.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.

People in this world are not often logical.

Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts They still think they're the gods of antiquity If something you missed didn't even exist It was just an ideal is it such a surprise?

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.

Irrationality is the square root of all evil.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

Life [had] replaced logic.

The Cha-Cha is no more ridiculous than life itself.

Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense.... It's insanity by definition.