In the most important area of human life— ethics—romantics claim to have answers. They hold that there is a moral truth—and that men can know it. This is inherent in the principle of human volition: if men’s choices are to be meaningful, then they must have the ability to choose the good and reject the evil; otherwise, volition is a trivial, inconse-quential faculty. But to choose between X and non-X, one must know them.
To choose the good, men must know the good.
Sayfa 185 - Andrew Bernstein
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"But in Hugo’s universe, and in Dostoyevsky’s, the good upheld by each author loses its struggle with its antipode. In Hugo’s universe, the saints are deceased and the world remains the same inhumane place it was before they lived. In Dostoyevsky’s universe, it is true, Dmitri is ready to renounce sin, and Alyosha perhaps has some success bringing Christian teachings to children, but these Christian gains are severely delimited. The world remains the same roaring pesthole of iniquity that the author depicted at his tale’s start. It is only in Atlas Shrugged that the fundamental villain—in this case, irrationality—is routed, and the fundamental hero—in this case, the mind—succeeds in trans-figuring the world. Why?"
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