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Ayn Rand
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Philosophy
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Value
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Since a value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep, and the amount of possible action is limited by the duration of one’s lifespan, it is a part of one’s life that one invests in everything one values. The years, months, days or hours of thought, of interest, of action devoted to a value are the currency with which one pays for the enjoyment one receives from it.
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Ayn Rand
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Philosophy
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Reason
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In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade the effort. But you are not free to escape from your nature, from the fact that reason is your means of survival.
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3
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Dr. Leonard Peikoff
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Philosophy
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Philosophy
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The nature and the fate of the civilization are determined by the content of its philosophy. That if reason and individualism and capitalism perish philosophically – that is to say at the hands of philosophers – in not too long of time they will perish culturally and existentially as well.
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4
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Gene Weingarten
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Philosophy
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Aesthetics
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It's an old epistemological debate, older, actually, than the koan about the tree in the forest. Plato weighed in on it, and philosophers for two millennia afterward: What is beauty? Is it a measurable fact (Gottfried Leibniz), or merely an opinion (David Hume), or is it a little of each, colored by the immediate state of mind of the observer (Immanuel Kant)?...Context matters.
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Gene Weingarten
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Philosophy
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Aesthetics
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If we can't take the time out of our lives to stay a moment and listen to one of the best musicians on Earth play some of the best music ever written; if the surge of modern life so overpowers us that we are deaf and blind to something like that - then what else are we missing?
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Interview magazine
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Philosophy
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Aesthetics
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...his [Joshua Bell] playing does nothing less than tell human beings why they bother to live.
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John Lane
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Philosophy
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Aesthetics
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What about their ability to appreciate life?...British author John Lane writes about the loss of the appreciation for beauty in the modern world...not because people didn't have the capacity to understand beauty, but because it was irrelevant to them. This is about having the wrong priorities...
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Leonard Peikoff
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Philosophy
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Death
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Now you may ask why make a metaphysical catastrophe out of the fact that we are going to die one day?...If you know Epicurus from the ancient world he took care of this whole problem of death very well with the following argument. He said Death should be nobody’s concern at all because no one will ever encounter it. Death is not a problem of the living because they are alive, and it is not a problem of the dead because they are not. Consequently no one will ever know any state other than life and there’s no point groveling before the fact of death.
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Rob Preston
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Philosophy
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Self Interest
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...self-interest and ethical behavior are consistent with sustainable prosperity. Flouting the law and screwing customers and partners have never been viable long-term growth strategies.
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Socrates
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Philosophy
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Marriage
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
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W.H. Davies
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Philosophy
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Aesthetics
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What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.
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