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“The Council of Scholars has said that we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not known by all do not exist.” quote by Ayn Rand — Download Open image

““The Council of Scholars has said that we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not known by all do not exist.””

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There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

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She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart

“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”

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A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent – who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the “whole” and accept humbly that the “whole’s” verdict – we don’t get a collective super-brain. We…

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“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent over, holding his hand, not raising it from his knee, and she pressed her lips to his hand. Her hat fell off, he saw the blond head at his knees, he felt her mouth kissing his…

This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.

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“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as their final expression, the purpose of all the things she loved on earth... To find a consciousness like her own, who would be the meaning of her world, as she would be of his... No, not…

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“We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

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If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment…

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It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them…

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The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in.

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The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame,…

Atheism Explained is a gem. It is clear, informative, well-argued, provocative, often witty, and unfailingly interesting. David Ramsay Steele ranges over so many issues…

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It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work…

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The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes…

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I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

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I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work.…

Khaled Hosseini

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Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions.

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