Comments on: Some quotes from The Fountainhead that are insane

By: katie

katie — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:51:27 +0000

“If I found a job, a project, an idea or a person I wanted – I’d have to depend on the whole world. Everything has strings leading to everything else. We’re all so tied together. We’re all in a net, the net is waiting, and we’re pushed into it by a single desire. You want a thing and it’s precious to you. Do you know who is standing ready to tear it out of your hands? You can’t know, it may be so involved and so far away, but someone is ready, and you’re afraid of them all. And you cringe and you crawl and you beg and you accept them – just so they’ll let you keep it. And look at whom you come to accept.”

I don’t know who you are, but I found your post looking for my favorite fountainhead quote of all time. This book changed my life and allowed me to find my soul.. I cannot even begin to explain what this book means to me. Finding this site makes me want to re-read the book for the 5th time…. and it puts me in the state I always end up being in after thinking about Howard Roark… there are so very few of these Roark characters left in the world… I’m just grateful to find a site like this, with other people understanding the true greatness of this book and what it does to your soul.. thank you….

By: Ashu

Ashu — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:17:04 +0000

Here it comes Mace:

“My dear Peter, people go by so many erroneous assumptions. For instance, that old one–divide and conquer. Well, it has its applications. But it remained for our century to discover a much more potent formula. Unite and rule.”

By: Mace

Mace — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:06:20 +0000

Ellesworth Toohey had a really good quote I can’t really remember when or where he said it but it goes something like this:

“…had it all wrong…Divide and Conquer…Unite and rule”

Toohey makes a really good point. Can’t someone help me with this quote. I can’t find many Toohey quotes anywhere.

By: Becca

Becca — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:30:00 +0000

I’ve just finished reading The Fountainhead, and find myself obsessed with Howard Roark. As an artist, I was trained that classical-influenced photo-realistic painting/drawing is the only “acceptable” form of art. I however am not that type of artist, and Howard Roark has given me the courage to be what I am. I’m expecting, and I’m naming my son Roark.

By: Bhupendra Pali

Bhupendra Pali — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:33:25 +0000

“I often think that he’s the only one of us who’s achieved immortality. I don’t mean in the sense of fame and I don’t mean that he won’t die some day. But he’s living it. I think he is what the conception really means. You know how people long to be eternal. But they die with every day that passes. When you meet them, they’re not what you met last. In any given hour, they kill some part of themselves. They change, they deny, they contradict–and they call it growth. At the end there’s nothing left, nothing unrevered or unbetrayed; as if there had never been any entity, only a succession of adjectives fading in and out on an unformed mass. How do they expect a permanence which they have never held for a single moment? But Howard–one can imagine him existing forever.” - Steven Mellory & not Peter Keating.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:39:30 +0000

I’m not sure if anyone’s told you yet, but the quote you had cited as Peter Keating talking about Howard Roark achieving immortality was actually Steve Mallory talking to Dominique. I’ve read the book three times, and every time I read that quote (it may be my favorite) I always have to think about it for a while or else I probably wouldn’t have remembered. Anyway, I love the quotes you picked, they really showed the spirit of the book and the writing ability of Ayn Rand. I’m one of two people I know who actually love the book, so I’m glad that people still can appreciate a book like this.

By: Ashu

Ashu — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:50:14 +0000

“What do you want?” snapped Cameron. “I should like to work for you,” said Roark quietly. The voice said: “I should like to work for you.” The tone of the voice said: “I’m going to work for you.”
“Are you?” said Cameron, not realizing that he answered the unpronounced sentence.

By: Neel

Neel — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:31:21 +0000

My personal favourite:
“But to be beaten by the man who has always stood as the particular example of mediocrity in his eyes, to start by the side of this mediocrity and to watch it shoot up, while he struggles and gets nothing but a boot in his face, to see the mediocrity snatch from him, one after another, the chances he’d give his life for, to see the mediocrity worshipped, to miss the place he wants and to see the mediocrity enshrined upon it, to lose, to be sacrificed, to be ignored, to be beaten, beaten, beaten–not by a greater genius, not by a god, but by a Peter Keating–well, my little amateur, do you think the Spanish Inquisition ever thought of a torture to equal this?”

If you haven’t already done it …. read Atlas Shrugged …. equally outstanding

By: Chitra Agarwal

Chitra Agarwal — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:14:56 +0000

You Know what, though I am really glad to read about the quotes all of you have liked and the fact that they were all the ones which I liked too, but sometimes, just sometimes in my course of reading the book, I too felt like Dominique- about not liking the fact that so many people have read this book, that the eyes of so many have seen the same lines. Though now I don’t feel any such thing (I am on part four- Howard Roark).
Anyway there was this one line which caught me off guard:
” Until you stop hating all this, stop being afraid of it, learn not to notice it.”
this was when Dominique meets Roark in Clayton and is about to leave.

By: Satyajit

Satyajit — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:36:43 +0000

http://rgvarma.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!5187B91811914FB4!13533.entry?ccr=3674#comment

The exact opposite of this views and how people applaud them