Monday, 24 June 2013
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Quote
His face was like a Law of Nature-a thing one could not question, alter or implore.
#TheFountainhead
#TheFountainhead
Saturday, 9 March 2013
Do you think money is evil!?
"Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of
exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able
to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men
who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for
value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by
tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made
possible only by the men who produce.
Is this what you consider evil?"
#Francisco d'Anconia. #AynRand #Objectivism #Money #AtlasShrugged
Is this what you consider evil?"
#Francisco d'Anconia. #AynRand #Objectivism #Money #AtlasShrugged
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Crispy Objectivism: Sacred
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.
Monday, 25 February 2013
Show me the person they sleep with!
“Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to
reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a
person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental
convictions. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will
tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep
with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves. No matter what
corruption they're taught about the
virtue of selflessness, sex is the most profoundly selfish of all acts,
an act which they cannot perform for any motive but their own enjoyment -
just try to think of performing it in a spirit of selfless charity! -
an act which is not possible in self-abasement, only in self-exultation,
only on the confidence of being desired and being worthy of desire. It
is an act that forces them to stand naked in spirit, as well as in body,
and accept their real ego as their standard of value. They will always
be attracted to the person who reflects their deepest vision of
themselves, the person whose surrender permits them to experience - or
to fake - a sense of self-esteem .. Love is our response to our highest
values - and can be nothing else.”
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Rand said!
"I am primarily the creator of a new code of morality which has so far been believed impossible - namely, a morality not based on faith, not on emotion, not on arbitrary edicts, mystical or social, but on reason."
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Extract from The Fountainhead
"Most people build as they live--as a matter
of routine and senseless accident. But a few understand that building is
a great symbol. We live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to
bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form.
For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his
life. If he doesn't build, when he has the means, it's because his life
has not been what he wanted."
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