Ayn Rand ended darkness for me and for the whole world. Her effect on me was magical. In one stroke, almost at once, when I was 24, she brushed away all doubts, conclusions, uncertainties.
20 years have gone by since I encountered Ayn Rand, there is a great clarify that I have now (the spiral progression) but the wonder of that human being that Ayn Rand was still remains.
I love Ayn Rand. In this blind, lonely world she is a tremendous solace, security. Its very difficult to put it in words.
She gives a simplicity to things, as if all questions have answers, all problems can be solved, there is nothing beyond one’s reach; she takes you in to her fold and loves you in a manner that is absolutely unique, special, wondrous.
Ayn Rand practically was such a tremendous guide that she almost made me a new human being. I sometimes wonder at where it will all go and my follow objectivists share that unique feeling, that is the bond between us. We have all been taken to a land – which is not just an empty ‘promise’ but a complete, real, grounded, secure, reality.
Ayn Rand’s sheer intelligence astonishes me. Even the subtlest, the most hidden truths are not beyond her searchlight mind that uncovers, reveals.
More. She then loves, is delighted and fashions it – Oh! How! The communication is then complete, piercing going straight into you. You don’t even need to chew, you take it all in.
She is a valuer and how sincere, how simple, how total. The smallest things of value – but it is absolute for her, she sees the whole unit and reacts immediately.
Her range! It is unbelievable. She makes a unit out of everything. A huge complexity is brought into a sweeping view, in to a small thing, conceptually complete.
She lives her epistemology – so to speak. She values the rational epistemological method like no one else. She has made it automatic, a unit of thinking of itself and that has become a second skin – natural, flowing, supremely confident.
To know, to value, to live – she makes these concepts utterly obvious till you are not the same and never can be.
Ayn Rand is too true, too good, the most complete human being in history and as she herself says in complete self knowledge about Galt – “completely normal”.
She has released man’s energies, directed the world, given shape to things, value to things, meaning to things.
Ayn Rand is the climax of man’s struggle to find his roots, his life, his reality, his happiness, his security, his serenity.
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