read Ayn Rand

I have always respected the people I know who believe strongly in Ayn Rand’s philosophies, but I have never made the time to become properly acquainted. What I know is all second-hand from people who speak of Ayn’s work, but I know I need to experience it myself.

I will be purchasing my first of her books, Anthem, in January.

I read Anthem and started Fountainhead, though “real life” got in the way of finishing that one. From what I know, though, Anthem is the most accessable of her works, plus it’s pretty short. So good luck! If you like it, you might move on to some others of hers.

“Do not say that you’re afraid to trust your mind because you know so little. Are you safer in surrendering to mystics and discarding the little that you know? Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience-that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible-that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.”