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"Philosophy is the goal toward which religion was only a helplessly blind groping. The grandeur, the reverence, the exalted purity, the austere dedication to the pursuit of truth, which are commonly associated with religion, should properly belong to the field of philosophy."
["The Chickens' Homecoming," Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, 46.]
PLAYBOY: "Has no religion, in your estimation, ever offered anything of constructive value to human life?"
RAND: "Qua religion, no—in the sense of blind belief, belief unsupported by, or contrary to, the facts of reality and conclusions of reason. Faith, as such, is extremely detrimental to human life: it is the negation of reason."
["Playboy's Interview with Ayn Rand," Playboy, March 1964. ]
"[F]aith and force. . . . are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny."
["Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World," Philosophy: Who Needs It, 66.]
"The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism—a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom."
["The Left: Old and New," Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, 162.]
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