 Don't count on luck or God for success, but on your own thinking.
Leonard Peikoff
Peikoff explaining Rand's version of "Goodbye" (i.e., "Good premises") in the Epilogue to VOR
By its nature, evasion is a form of nonintegration. It is the most lethal form: the willful disintegration of mental contents. A man in this condition no longer has the means to determine consistency or contradiction, truth or falsehood. In his conciousness, all conceptual content is reduced to the capricious, the baseless, the arbitrary; no conclusion qualifies as knowledge in a mind that rejects the requirements of cognition. Thus the real evader, like the hypothetical one I mentioned first, reaches only one end and one kind of "safety": all-encompassing blindness.
Leonard Peikoff
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
"To abolish vice, establish virtue. To establish virtue, enshrine thought. To enshrine thought, identify its relationship to reality.
Leonard Peikoff
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
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