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Leonard Peikoff

Leonard Sylvan Peikoff (/ˈpiːkˌɑːf/; born October 15, 1933) is a Canadian-American philosopher. He is an Objectivist and was a close associate of Ayn Rand, who designated him heir to her estate after her death. He is a former professor of philosophy and host of a nationally syndicated radio talk show. He co-founded the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) in 1985 and is the author of several books on philosophy.

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The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.

Ideas, Kind, Majority, Men, Taught

Objectivism advocates reason as man's sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It denies any supernatural dimension presented as a contradiction of nature, of existence. This applies not only to God, but also to every variant of the supernatural ever advocated or to be advocated. In other words, we accept reality, and that's all.

Atheist, Mean, Reality, Supernatural, Variant

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

Dependent, Ideas, Majority, Men, Unphilosophical

Unlike the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the nation's economy. The issue of legal ownership is secondary; what counts is the issue of control. Private citizens, therefore, may continue to hold titles to property-so long as the state res. . . erves to itself the unqualified right to regulate the use of their property.

Continue, Issues, Legal, Mean, Production, Running

To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.

Children, Criminals, Hypocrisy, Rot, Sake

Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to this issue I would say: Any way possible permission should be refused and if they go ahead and build it, the government should bomb it out of existence, evacuating it first, with no compensation to any of the property owners involved in this monstrosity.

Build, Issues, Mean, Owners, Say, War

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

Evidence, Men, Reach, Relevant, Weighing

Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the '50s with Eisenhower when Iran seized western oil companies. The Americans, the British, and the Israelis, as I remember, launched an attack to try to reclaim it and - or at least the British and the Israelis did and Eisenhower vetoed it.

Iran, Launched, Oil, States, Trying

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

Become, Clear, Ifs, Know, Knows, Properly

To save the world is the simplest thing in the world. All one has to do is think.

Save The World, Simplest, Thing, Thinking, World

What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when he was three? The proper question is: what does he say and do now?

Appraise, Man, Men, Mother, Order, Three

The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.

Coming, Future, Motivate, Opponents, Should, Worse

Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements. ' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.

Art, Preface, Reality, Require, Symphony