VAŠE ŽELJE NE POMAŽU
U filozofiji Ajn Rend, stvarnost postoji kao objektivni apsolut, otporan na naše želje. Međutim, naša sposobnost mišljenja nam daje mogućnost da razumemo stvarnost i izbor da iskoristimo ovo znanje da stvaramo ono što će nam pomoći da preživimo. ,,Jedina kreativna moć koju čovek poseduje je sposobnost prekombinovanja prirodnih elemenata'', Rend piše. ,, To je ogromna i predivna moć — i jedino značenje koncepta kreativnosti''.
The primacy of existence (of reality) is the axiom that existence exists, i.e., that the universe exists independent of consciousness (ofanyconsciousness). . . . To grasp the axiom that existence exists, means to grasp the fact that nature, i.e., the universe as a whole, cannot be created or annihilated, that it cannot come into or go out of existence. Whether its basic constituent elements are atoms, or subatomic particles, or some yet undiscovered forms of energy, it is not ruled by a consciousness or by will or by chance, but by the Law of Identity. . . . Nature is themetaphysically given— i.e., the nature of nature is outside the power of any volition.
— Ayn Rand, “The Metaphysical Versus the Man-Made,” Philosophy: Who Needs It