“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” – Ayn Rand

About Ayn Rand 

Ayn Rand (1905-1982) was the pen name of Alice O’Connor, a Russian-born American philosopher and author. She wrote two bestselling novels, Atlas Shrugged (1957) and The Fountainhead (1943), and is known for developing a philosophical system called Objectivism, which asserts that self-interest is the highest moral purpose and that reason is the only absolute.

She argued – inspirationally, sometimes – that humans are born with the capacity for reason and should pursue their own happiness, not sacrifice themselves for others.

I’m not an ideologue and don’t favor them because they get themselves in rhetorical tangles that are rationally impossible to get out of. That said, Rand was very good at debate and much fun to watch.

You’ll get a good sense of how brilliant she is here as she explains Objectivism to Mike Wallace.

“Never in my life have I seen an unholy trinity of censorship like I’ve seen with the power of government, big tech, and the mainstream media all pulling in the same direction when it came to enforcing their own narrative of COVID.” – Clay Travis

From Sara Teasdale: 

“I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.”

From Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821):

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”

Food for Thought

“Emerson said a man is what he thinks about all day long. I’d say a man is what he does all day long. What he thinks about is what he is not.” – Michael Masterson

Bari Weiss on Christianity 

“Whether you believe in the story of the virgin birth and resurrection, or you believe that those miracles are myths, one thing is beyond dispute: The story of Jesus and the message of Christianity is among the stickiest ideas the world has ever seen.

“Within four centuries of Jesus’s death, Christianity had become the official religion of the Roman Empire. It had 30 million followers – which amounted to half the empire. Today, two millennia later, Christianity is still the largest religion in the world, with more than 2 billion adherents.”

“It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.” – Charles Baudelaire

“It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.” – Charles Baudelaire

“Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.” – Miguel de Cervantes