Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share
“An individual can be hurt in countless ways by other men's irrationality, dishonesty, injustice. Above all, he can be disappointed, perhaps grievously, by the… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share
“Statism and the advocacy of reason are philosophical opposites. They cannot coexist—neither in a philosophic system nor in a nation.” — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share
Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the '50s with… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share
Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share
“[There is] a widespread approach to ideas which Objectivism repudiates altogether: agnosticism. I mean this term in a sense which applies to the question… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share
The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share
Objectivism advocates reason as man's sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It denies any… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share
Unlike the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share
What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when he was… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share
The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know. — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share
“Every argument for God and every attribute ascribed to Him rests on a false metaphysical premise. None can survive for a moment on a… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share
Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence. — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share
To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy. — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share
