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Saint Joan
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[reassuringly] Yes, squire: that is all right. My Lord is the King of Heaven.
“Education is not acquiring a stock of ready-made ideas, images, sentiments, beliefs and so forth; it is learning to look, to listen, to think, to feel, to imagine, to believe, to understand, to choose and to wish.”
― VOICE OF LIBERAL LEARNING, THE
― VOICE OF LIBERAL LEARNING, THE
“But we must not follow those who advise us…being mortal, [to think] of mortal things, but must, so far as we can, make ourselves immortal, and strain every nerve to live in accordance with the best thing in us; for even if it be small in bulk, much more does it in power and worth surpass everything.”
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“…of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“I will ask you to project the look on a child’s face when he grasps the answer to some problem he has been striving to understand. It is a radiant look of joy, of liberation, almost of triumph, which is unself-conscious, yet self-assertive, and its radiance seems to spread in two directions: outward, as an illumination of the world—inward, as the first spark of what is to become the fire of an earned pride. If you have seen this look, or experienced it, you know that if there is such a concept as “sacred”—meaning: the best, the highest possible to man—this look is the sacred, the not-to-be-betrayed, the not-to-be-sacrificed for anything or anyone.”
― Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
― Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man’s highest potential and strive to actualize it. . . . [Man-worshipers are] those dedicated to the exaltation of man’s self-esteem and the sacredness of his happiness on earth.”
― The Objectivist: 1966-1971
― The Objectivist: 1966-1971
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