“The most common beginning to a disaster is a sense of security”
― Four Days in September: The Battle of Teutoburg
― Four Days in September: The Battle of Teutoburg
“You can only apprehend the infinite by entering into a state in which you are finite self no longer.”
― Mystic Wisdom
― Mystic Wisdom
“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”
― The Passion of Ayn Rand
― The Passion of Ayn Rand
“It is not even in extraordinary situations, where all eyes are upon us, where all our energy is aroused, and all our vigilance is awake, that the highest efforts of virtue are usually demanded of us; but rather in silence and seclusion, amidst our occupations and our homes; in wearing sickness, that makes no complaint; in sorely-tried honesty, that asks no praise; in simple disinterestedness, hiding the hand that resigns its advantage to another.”
― Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
― Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
“For Ayn had built up a comprehensive systematic philosophy, which she calls Objectivism, and which, once you accept its first premises, is the most closely reasoned, rigorously logical and consistently interlocking world view and explanation since the great synthesis of Thomas Aquinas.”
― The Passion of Ayn Rand
― The Passion of Ayn Rand
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