ThatGuy

"Well I’ll be…I must confess I dismissed the claim out of hand, since if there were chapter headings it would amount to some 50-70 quotes. It would have been a revelatory bombshell. Does anyone have these 4 section quotes to share? " This is also mentioned in the JOURNALS OF AYN RAND, by that book's editor: ["It seems that AR once considered prefacing each part of The Fountainhead with a quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche. The first two quotations below were copied into her journal and may have been intended for parts I and II; the last was placed after the title page IV."'] The Nietzsche quotes are listed, along with the above, on p. 219. First one: "Vanity is one of the things which are perhaps most difficult for the noble man to understand: he will be tempted to deny it, where another kind of man thinks he sees it self-evidently. The problem for him is to represent to his mind beings who seek to arouse a good opinion of themselves which they do not possess-and consequently also do not 'deserve'-and who yet believe in this good opinion afterwords." Second one: "Ye preachers of equality, the tyrant frenzy of impotence crieth thus in you for 'equality'; your most secret tyrant-longings disguise themselves thus in virtue words!" Third one: But from time to time do you grant me-one glimpse, grant me but one glimpse only, of something perfect, fully realized, happy, mighty, triumphant, of something that still gives cause for fear! A glimpse of man that justifies the existence of man, a glimpse of an incarnate human happiness that realizes and redeems, for the sake of which one may hold fast to the belief in man!"