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Life is the standard by which to judge good and evil | Objectivist
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“In today’s chaos, every advance of knowledge is also a threat; it raises the possibility, even the likelihood, of some unforeseeable contradiction erupting somewhere. Hence the widespread bromide, which otherwise would be inexplicable, that the more you learn, the more confused you become and the less you know. If you avail yourself of the power of a rational epistemology, you do not have to fear new data or new ideas. Every new item you integrate into the fabric of your knowledge will mean that much more fact on your side, that much more weight to your conclusions, that much more conviction to the total of your cognition. By this method, you will soon discover what, in logic, should have been the popular wisdom: that the more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.” Excerpt from ‘Objectivism’ Leonard Peikoff