Ayn Rand in: Ayn Rand Reader, Penguin, 1 January 1999, p. 98

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

— Ayn Rand on Reward

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another." in the context of "Ayn Rand in: Ayn Rand Reader, Penguin, 1 January 1999, p. 98" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Quote Image
Source: Wikiquote: "Reward" (Quotes: Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author, M - R) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app
Ayn Rand

About Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand (2 February 1905 – 6 March 1982) was a Russian-born American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her bestselling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system called Objectivism.