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Barbara Joan Branden, romancı-filozof Ayn Rand ile olan ilişkisi ve ardından ara vermesiyle tanınan Kanadalı-Amerikalı bir yazar, editör ve öğretim görevlisiydi.
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Yazar
Doğum:
Winnepeg, Kanada, 14 Mayıs 1929
Ölüm:
Kaliforniya, ABD, 11 Aralık 2013
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“As a human being, you have no choice about the fact that you need a philosophy,” she told the rows of gray-uniformed cadets and West Point officials and professors who overflowed the auditorium. “Your only choice is whether you define your philosophy by a conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought and scrupulously logical deliberation—or let your subconscious accumulate a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, undefined contradictions, undigested slogans, unidentified wishes, doubts and fears, thrown together by chance, but integrated by your subconscious into a kind of mongrel philosophy and fused into a single, solid weight: self-doubt, like a ball and chain in the place where your mind’s wings should have grown.”
Sayfa 378 - The speech at West Point, March of 1974
“That was the real time of starvation, those years,” Alice later grimly recalled. One evening, after a dinner consisting of a handful of dried peas, she felt her legs sagging under her. She sank to the floor, too weakened by hunger and fright to stand. A small portion of peas was being saved for Fronz’s arrival home. “May I have... just one of Father’s peas?” Alice asked. Her mother handed her a single pea, on her face the most terrible anguish Alice had ever seen in a human face.
Sayfa 44
“Man,” she wrote, “is a being of self-made soul.”
... One of them, concerned about how he would communicate her philosophy to book sellers, asked her jokingly: “Miss Rand—could you give the essence of your philosophy while standing on one foot?” She did. She said: “Metaphysics—objective reality; Epistemology—treason; Ethics—self-interest; Politics—capitalism.”
Sayfa 294
"Love is our response to our highest value—and can be nothing else."
Sayfa 248 - Atlas Shrugged
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