Rand: Mystics & Mind
"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." ~Ayn Rand, _ Atlas Shrugged_
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