This collection of writings … is a sin. It’s a sin of thought, and if the Church finds out about it, that it’s me, it will swing a wrecking ball my way
Read MoreReason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. Ayn Rand
Read MoreContradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. (Ayn Rand)
Read MoreThe creative mind is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others (Ayn Rand)
Read MoreMoney demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talents to their reason. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. Ayn Rand
Read MoreThe hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everyone has decided not to see. (Ayn Rand)
Read MoreAyn Rand has a knack for making one re-examine one’s premises. Have you ever heard of anyone stopping the conversation short, on commandments, to say that commandments themselves are immoral? She says: Hard to argue with: “The moral is the chosen, not the forced.” I’ve always thought that being obedient to a god who will […]
Read MoreAyn Rand is spinning in her grave from the way religious republicans conveniently invoke her name like a brand to get voters (in the 2012 election). And the media is playing along, reporting that VP-candidate Paul Ryan, who is very religious, is also an Ayn Rand fan. I keep wondering why none of the media […]
Read More anti-theistObjectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, vs. Christianity Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, provides a code of morality suitable for living successfully and happily on earth. Objectivism holds that reality is real, that reason is man’s only means of knowing it and that one should act in one’s own rational self-interest, with rationality being […]
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