Best 26 quotes in «fountainhead quotes» category

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.

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.

I don't like museums, I like labs.

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?

I am a man who does not exist for others.

For God is good — or rather, of all goodness He is Fountainhead, and it is impossible for one who is good to be mean or grudging about anything.

Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.

Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.

Integers are the fountainhead of all mathematics.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.

My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves.

Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

The miracle is this - the more you give, the more you have.

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead

A busy mind is full of thoughts, a blissful mind is full of ideas.

A conclusive mind cannot be a creative mind.

Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." Roark: "But I don't think of you.