The fountainhead quotations

[Jordan111]

Hello. This is my first post in this forum, and I feel a little funny for posting something so vague, but this is absolutely killing me. I have been reading "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand and am currently half way through. In the last few days, I read a memorable quote (for me), but I never marked the page and cannot for the life of me relocate it.

I believe it was Toohey's quotation. I believe he was discussing how certain types of people, that share a similar (weak in context) trait, must not consider themselves weak if they don't suffer from that trait as well. To provide an analogy--people of aboriginal decent typically have lower rates of university education and higher rates of secondary school drop out, but if a family of aboriginal decent is very wealthy, they should not lump themselves in as being considered 'weak' or 'needy' of help as they would suffer like other aboriginals.

Again, I'm very sorry for how weak and vague my post is here, but I absolutely loved that quotation and would love to relocate it.

Cheers and thank you!

 

[Occlith]

Mr. A....we're waiting.

 

[sparkchaser]

 

[Mr. A]

I havent read the book in many years, it was my first introduction to Rands works. Thats so vague I dont even think I can answer, but how about:

"It's good to suffer. Don't complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy. If you don't understand this, don't try to understand. Everything bad comes from the mind, because the mind asks too many questions. It is blessed to believe, not to understand. So if you didn't get passing grades, be glad of it. It means that you are better than the smart boys who think too much and too easily.

Why dont you try retracing your steps through the book, a few days back.