[b]Ayn Rand from The Fountainhead
One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance. There’s no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes.[/b]
Let alone objectively.
Now take a human body. Why wouldn’t you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, you know, instead of the stark, bare ugliness we have now.
Right, like a stark naked unadorned human body is ugly.
What in hell are you really made of, Howard? After all, it’s only a building. It’s not the combination of holy sacrament, Indian torture, and sexual ecstasy that you seem to make of it.
Isn’t it?
We’ll have to see the building first, of course.
Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people.
No getting around the beauty of that.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
In other words, not see in precisely the same way that she does.
It’s such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don’t even know that you’re being subtle and vicious.
More to the point [sometimes]: don’t even care.