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

- Leonard Peikoff

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

- Leonard Peikoff

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 supe…

- Leonard Peikoff

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 …

- Leonard Peikoff

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 …

- Leonard Peikoff

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

- Leonard Peikoff

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 …

- Leonard Peikoff

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 …

- Leonard Peikoff

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

- Leonard Peikoff