Leonard Peikoff

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men…

— Leonard Peikoff

“An individual can be hurt in countless ways by other men's irrationality, dishonesty, injustice. Above all, he can be disappointed, perhaps grievously,…

— Leonard Peikoff

“Statism and the advocacy of reason are philosophical opposites. They cannot coexist—neither in a philosophic system nor in a nation.”

— Leonard Peikoff

Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the…

— Leonard Peikoff

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…

— Leonard Peikoff

“[There is] a widespread approach to ideas which Objectivism repudiates altogether: agnosticism. I mean this term in a sense which applies to…

— Leonard Peikoff

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

— Leonard Peikoff

Objectivism advocates reason as man's sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It…

— Leonard Peikoff

Unlike the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee…

— Leonard Peikoff

What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when…

— Leonard Peikoff

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

— Leonard Peikoff

“Every argument for God and every attribute ascribed to Him rests on a false metaphysical premise. None can survive for a moment…

— Leonard Peikoff

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

— Leonard Peikoff

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

The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.

— Leonard Peikoff

To save the world is the simplest thing in the world. All one has to do is think.

— Leonard Peikoff

Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to…

— Leonard Peikoff

“Principles make it simple.”

— Leonard Peikoff