Quotes by Leonard Peikoff
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”— Leonard Peikoff
“The man who is motivated by the content of his own consciousness, not by the commands of others, is an egoist.”— Leonard Peikoff
“The essence of the evil of bigotry is that it strips from human beings the very trait which defines them as human: the independent mind.”— Leonard Peikoff
“The basic evil of religion, from the Objectivist viewpoint, is the fact that it is a crutch.”— Leonard Peikoff
“To be objective in one's conceptual activities is to be guided by the facts of reality.”— Leonard Peikoff
“The whole country is one vast gang of people, raping, looting, and murdering, and they're not being stopped.”— Leonard Peikoff
“In a free society, you are not forced to deal with anyone against your own judgment.”— Leonard Peikoff
“A principle is a fundamental truth, a primary, self-evident truth from which a vast number of others are derived.”— Leonard Peikoff
“Every man has to be an intellectual. The only question is whether his intellectuality is conscious or unconscious, explicit or implicit, disciplined or random.”— Leonard Peikoff
“Without context, a piece of information is just a dot. It floats in your head with a lot of other dots and doesn't mean a damn thing.”— Leonard Peikoff