You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.
Ayn RandThe alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind
Ayn RandThe action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.
Ayn RandIn western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that you know the nature of that period and the state of human existence in those ages. The Renaissance broke the rules of the mystics. "Renaissance" means the "rebirth". Few people today will care to remind you that it was a rebirth of reason - of man's mind.
Ayn Rand