“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”

“We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality”

“To irrational principles, one cannot be loyal. Ideas that are not derived from reality cannot be consistently practiced in reality.--as quoted by Leonard Peikoff in "Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand”

“They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.”

“Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.”

“He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.”

“Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.”