Top 29 Leonard Peikoff Quotes

#1. Logic, order, truth, reason, we consign them all to the oblivion of death," said one Surrealist manifesto. We must "cultivate the hatred of intelligence," said the leader of the Futurists, Filippo Marinetti, an artist hailed by Mussolini as the John the Baptist of Fascism.17

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

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#3. The Nazis take the skeleton in the closet of centuries and rattle it boastfully. Force, they declare, will always be necessary, since it is in the nature of human life (which is true, if one accepts their concept of human life).

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#4. No man can return to being a boy. But there are interludes in a man's life when, for a time, he can recapture the feeling that the world is a forgiving place and that he is immortal.

Robin Hobb

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#5. Principles make it simple.

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#6. I'm not trying to PREDICT the future. I'm just trying to PREVENT it.

Ray Bradbury

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#7. Each of us by our daily acts of peace and our commitment to building a better world can inspire others and help create a groundswell for peace too powerful to be turned aside.

David Krieger

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#8. The artist is the closest man comes to being God.

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#9. If you want it, you can have it, Imogen. Don't make excuses because you're scared, he remarked harshly, almost angrily.

A Meredith Walters

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#10. For me to create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. But I get to some really good stuff after a while.

Jason Mraz

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#11. Strangely enough, the first time I tried to read [The Lord of the Rings] I was on holiday in Florida. I dropped it in the pool my first day there. If that's not a Pippin thing to do, I don't know what is.

Billy Boyd

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

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#13. When you get up in front of a group of people, you make a contract with them; you promise them, "I am going to deliver value X." Every once in a while, you have to say, "See, I remember; I am keeping my promise.

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#14. Not only does society suffer from racism and sexism but it also suffers from ageism. Once you reach a certain age you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual. I mean, is there a rule? Are you supposed to just die?

Madonna Ciccone

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#15. All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself.

Mike Wilson

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#16. To irrational principles, one cannot be loyal. Ideas that are not derived from reality cannot be consistently practiced in reality.
as quoted by Leonard Peikoff in Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand

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#17. The man who waits for reality to write the truth inside his soul waits in vain.

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#18. The deepest roots of this modern shift are twofold: in epistemology, the romanticist advocacy of feeling as superior to reason; in ethics, the altruist advocacy of others as superior to self. The result is a view of morality in which the ruling standard is: the feelings of others.

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#19. Socialism" for the Nazis denotes the principle of collectivism as such and its corollary, statism - in every field of human action, including but not limited to economics. "To be a socialist," says Goebbels, "is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole."9

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

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

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#22. If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.

Veerappa Moily

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#23. Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

Horace Bushnell

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

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#25. Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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#26. You talk; I'll sleep. feel free to make up my side of the conversation in case you get bored. I recommend throwing in the occasional 'fuck you' on my behalf, just to keep things true to life.

Douglas Hulick

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#27. 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?

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#28. Statism and the advocacy of reason are philosophical opposites. They cannot coexist - neither in a philosophic system nor in a nation.

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

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