Atlas Quotes

Atlas Quote of the day

Later that night, I held an atlas on my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world, and whispered, ‘where does it hurt?’ It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.

You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.

Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich - it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it somewhere, and I think it's interesting because it looks different each time.

I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with the normal use.

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.

I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

As for me, I did the stupidest thing in my life, which is saying a lot. I attacked the Titan Lord Atlas.

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.

What is Atlas Obscura? So, it was a small digital media company. It's an atlas, it's literally like, an atlas of places, wonderful, unusual places.

He aint in your world you can take em off your atlas

Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.

I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

They [granddaughters] went to Disneyland and Alice proudly told Snow White: 'My grandmother is a famous atlas!' So that's nice - they're happy that I'm an atlas!

I've loved you since the day I stole the atlas for you," Gabriel says, because he thinks I'm asleep.

I always like to have an atlas just so that I can find things out. It's always good to have an almanac; those sort of things.

I give out Atlas Shrugged as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it.

See me looking like Atlas, when he handle the globe. I see you looking like Alice, Wonderland is your home. It makes me wonder if you practice your flow.

The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan.

For my birthday that year Anne gave me an inflatable atlas globe, along with a birthday card in which she wrote: I give you the world. Have fun blowing it up.

The statue was of a young man with a tall, gaunt body and an angular face. He held his head as if he faced a challenge and found joy in his capacity to meet it.

Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or not to be’ is the question 'to think or not to think..'.

It was the smile of a man who is able to see, to know and to create the glory of existence. It was the mocking, challenging smile of a brilliant intelligence.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.

...they want us to pretend that we see the world as they pretend they see it. They need some sort of sanction from us.

The source of work? Man’s mind...man’s reasoning mind.

He did not know that he was expected to attempt to buy his way into society and that they anticipated the pleasure of rejecting him. He had no time to notice their disappointment.

Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it. Is this the reason why you call it evil?

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.