Galt's Gulch

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  • Posted by illucio 12 years, 1 month ago
    The mind is our greatest organ, the heart is our fundamental pump. Should you confuse desire with wisdom, then doomed you are. Always overestimate the power of the mind, and learn to use it every day so that you concentrate even on the smallest things. This way you´ll discover how to be more effective in everything, more conscious of everything and more knowledgable in everything. Emotions too can be subdued to the mind, this is key in order to overcome them.
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 12 years, 1 month ago
    Excellent quote. Rand is too often thought of as rigid and unforgiving. She knew we were all of different levels of understanding. She tried to educate and influence. When you read Mr. Peikoff's reflections of her patience with him in their early years you see she was passionate, but forgiving. But, what she could not forgive was one who forsake reason.
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  • Posted by KYFHO 12 years, 1 month ago
    Yes, I debate libs regularly and they always tell me they feel we need to do more, give more, keep less, blah, blah, blah. They are killers of free society, of private ownership, of thoughts, words and deeds. It is all about the collective and nothing about the individual. They are the crux of this quote. They do not care to learn, only indoctrinate. Even when presented with facts, they somehow "feel" the facts are not right.
    Keep learning, keep an open mind, don't be a libtard.
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  • Posted by DaveM49 12 years, 1 month ago
    Truly a great quote. Anyone who is willing to learn has potential, perhaps even to provide a lesson to his or her "teachers". Those who are willfully ignorant and refuse any opportunity to improve themselves are to be avoided at all costs. They are, all too often, dangerous.
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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 12 years, 1 month ago
    Where was this quote from, exactly? What was the context in which she said this?
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    • Posted by johnpe1 12 years, 1 month ago
      did an online search and found that the North Texas Objectivist Society has it in their kinda-sorta-bylaws, so I joined & sent them an email message asking about the source. more to come! [their quote is: "Make every allowance for errors of knowledge; do not forgive or accept any breach of morality. Give the benefit of the doubt to those who seek to know.”]
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      • Posted by johnpe1 12 years, 1 month ago
        OK; here it is, courtesy of the organizer of the group (I've only read AS 3 times and I'm embarrassed that I missed this!):
        The quote you are looking for is from Atlas Shrugged, Galt's Speech, at about 40 paragraphs from the end (emphasis added):
        "Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an impossible, automatic omniscience. But a breach of morality is the conscious choice of an action you know to be evil, or a willful evasion of knowledge, a suspension of sight and of thought. That which you do not know, is not a moral charge against you; but that which you refuse to know, is an account of infamy growing in your soul. Make every allowance for errors of knowledge; do not forgive or accept any breach of morality. Give the benefit of the doubt to those who seek to know; but treat as potential killers those specimens of insolent depravity who make demands upon you, announcing that they have and seek no reasons, proclaiming, as a license, that they 'just feel it'—or those who reject an irrefutable argument by saying: 'It's only logic,' which means: 'It's only reality.' The only realm opposed to reality is the realm and premise of death.
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