There Is A Fundamental Conviction Which Some People Never Acquire, Some Hold Only In Their Youth, And A Few Hold To The End Of Their Days-- The Conviction That IDEAS MATTER.

There Is A Fundamental Conviction Which Some People Never Acquire, Some Hold Only In Their Youth, And A Few Hold To The End Of Their Days-- The Conviction That IDEAS MATTER.

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There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold
only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-- the conviction
that IDEAS MATTER. In one's youth that conviction is experienced as a
self-evident absolute, and one is unable fully to believe that there are people
who do not share it. That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that
truth matters, that one's mind matters. And the radiance of that certainty,
in the process of growing up, is the best aspect of youth.
-- Ayn Rand

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In any given field, the leading voices come from people who are motivated not by conviction but by the desire to present opinions and ideas that differ from those held by the majority.
And no philosophy, sadly, has all the answers. No matter how assured we may be about certain aspects of our belief, there are always painful inconsistencies, exceptions, and contradictions.
This is true in religion as it is in politics, and is self-evident to all except fanatics and the naive....
Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all. -- Arthur Balfou
Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all. BALFOUR
background: n.,adj.,vt. To do a task `in background' is to do it whenever {foreground} matters are not claiming your undivided attentio
and `to background' something means to relegate it to a lower priority....
background n.,adj.,vt. [common] To do a task `in background' is to do it whenever foreground matters are not claiming your undivided attentio
and `to background' something means to relegate it to a lower priority....
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. -- Pliny the Elde
In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain. -- Pliny the Elde