Apollo and Dionysus (1969)
Context: [The hippies] were told that love - indiscriminate love for one's fellow man - is the highest virtue, and they obeyed. They were told that the merging of one's self with a herd, tribe, or community is the noblest way for a man to live, and they obeyed. There isn't a philosophical idea of today's establishment which they have not accepted, which they do not share. When they discovered this philosophy did not work, because in fact it cannot work, the hippies had neither the wit nor the courage to challenge it. They found, instead, an outlet for their impotent frustration by accusing their elders of hypocrisy, as if hypocrisy were the only obstacle to the realization of their dreams. And, left blindly, helplessly lobotomized in the face of an inexplicable reality that is not amenable to their feelings, they have no recourse but the shouting of obscenities at anything that frustrates their whims; at man, or at the rainy sky, indiscriminately, with no concept of the difference. It is typical of today's culture that the proponents of seething, raging hostility are taken as advocates of love.
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Ayn Rand trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection“You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated”
Source: The Fountainhead
“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!”
Source: The Fountainhead
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Source: Atlas Shrugged
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Source: Atlas Shrugged