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*A philosophic system is an
integrated view of existence.
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-Ayn Rand
Philosophy: Who Needs It?, 1982
"Philosophy: Who Needs It?", 1974
Leonard Peikoff, ed.
Originally presented as an address to the graduating class of West Point on
March 6, 1974
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*If you feel nothing but
boredom when reading the virtually unintelligible theories of some
philosophers, you have my deepest sympathy. But if you brush them aside,
saying: "Why should I study that stuff when I know it's nonsense?"---
you are mistaken. It is nonsense, but you don't know it---not
so long as you go on accepting all their conclusions, all the vicious catch
phrases generated by those philosophers. And not so long as you are unable
to refute them.
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-Ayn Rand
Philosophy: Who Needs It?, 1982
"Philosophy: Who Needs It?", 1974
Leonard Peikoff, ed.
Originally presented as an address to the graduating class of West Point
on March 6, 1974
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*And there is the
philosophy of Existentialism---which discards the politeness of
rationalization, takes Kant straight, and proclaims the supremacy of
emotions in an unknowable, incomprehensible, inexplicable, nauseating
non-world.
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-Ayn Rand
Philosophy: Who Needs It?, 1982
"Philosophical Detection", 1974
Leonard Peikoff, ed.
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*Ethics is a conceptual
discipline; loyalty to a code of values requires an ability to grasp abstract
principles and to apply them to concrete situations and actions. . .
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-Ayn Rand
Philosophy: Who Needs It?, 1982
"Selfishness Without a Self", 1974
Leonard Peikoff, ed.
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*A man who is honestly
convinced that he can find no answers, would not feel the need to
pretend that he is looking for them.
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-Ayn Rand
Philosophy: Who Needs It?, 1982
"Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World", 1960
Leonard Peikoff, ed.
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