“Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality.” WorldEndsPhilosophyFactsRealityPoliticalPassionIntellectualUltimateErrorsConvictionDuesGenuineMeaninglessEroticParagraphExcludedIdentifyingUltimate Reality Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals
“The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.” ThinkingEndsAgeTimeLonelinessAgingFinalsGenuineBeing AloneFeeling LonelyBeing LonelyFinal Destination Author:Edward Gibbon
“Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.” EndsCareNightBedFindingsShotsWake UpDollarsPatientCancerGenuineRecoveryCuresDeniedDevotedExhaustedFluMammogramsPrognosisPreventive Care Author:Jacob M. Appel
“What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate groups (the Klan, Aryan Nation, skinheads, etc.), to make it appear that there's a logical relationship between say opposing affirmative action and lynching, or demands for an end to government services for illegal aliens and attacks on dark-skinned immigrants. The late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called this 'the broad-brush smear.'” EndsGovernmentActionLawHateNationsDarkPovertyGroupsHabitDemandLatePhilosopherGenuineAliensNovelistsEtcImmigrantsLogicalIllegalBroadsSouthernBrushesOpposingAffirmative ActionAffirmativeLynchingIllegal AliensDark SkinnedHate GroupsGovernment Service Author:Don Feder