I've wanted to want it. I should think it would be exciting to become a dissolute woman.
Ayn RandStichwörter: ayn-rand
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life:
The Lord of the Rings
and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]
Stichwörter: reading books education fantasy children-s-literature atlas-shrugged ayn-rand lord-of-the-rings life-changing real-world jrr-tolkien
If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?
Ayn RandStichwörter: life objectivism ayn-rand
I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: individualism selfishness objectivism ayn-rand libertarianism
To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this:
1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason.
2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right.
3. Charity is immoral.
4. Pay for your own fucking schools.
Stichwörter: philosophy cynicism objectivism ayn-rand
Saint Petersburg in revolt gave us Vladimir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin, and Ayn Rand. The first was a novelist, the second a philosopher. The third was neither but thought she was both.
Corey RobinStichwörter: objectivism ayn-rand
Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.
Gore VidalStichwörter: evil greed objectivism ayn-rand
They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation.
Ayn RandStichwörter: ayn-rand the-fountainhead
We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must exist for the sake of another. We are on strike against the morality of cannibals, be it practiced in body or in spirit. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours—and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others.
Ayn RandStichwörter: individualism objectivism atlas-shrugged ayn-rand rational-egoism
Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.
Ayn RandStichwörter: objectivism ayn-rand we-the-living objectivist
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