Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the '50s with Eisenhower when Iran seized western oil companies. The Americans, the British, and the Israelis, as I… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
Unlike the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the nation's economy. The issue of legal ownership is secondary; what counts is the issue of… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“[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 Image
The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know. — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
“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 Image
![“[There is] a widespread approach to ideas which Objectivism repudiates altogether: agnosticism. I mean this term in a sense which applies to the question of God, but to many other issues also, such as extra-sensory perception or the claim that the stars influence man’s destiny. In regard to all…” quote by Leonard Peikoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f5f/leonard-peikoff-29375_agnosticism_there-is-a-widespread-approach-to-ideas_1251970.jpg)
